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  AI and the Redefinition of Economic Power in 2025   Introduction: After a long journey through the history of economic thought—from currency as direct effort, to money as an instrument of power, and then as a promise of trust—we arrive today at our final and most critical stop: the present. In 2025, Artificial Intelligence is no longer just an auxiliary tool; it has become a semi-autonomous economic agent, raising the fundamental question that will define the 21st century: "The machine has become the ruler... so who rules the machine?"  AI as an Economic Actor: We are already witnessing AI's transformation from an analytical tool to a decision-maker. Machine learning algorithms currently execute high-frequency trading, dynamically set prices for thousands of goods and services, optimize global supply chains, and personalize marketing campaigns with pinpoint accuracy. These decisions, made in milliseconds, are shaping global markets in ways that exceed human capacity for...

  An Analysis of a Decade of Unconventional Policies and Rolling Crises (2009-2020)   Introduction: After narrowly escaping the 2008 meltdown, the world did not return to its previous state. Instead, we entered a decade that can be described as the "new normal" or a "troubled planet." This period was characterized by unprecedented economic experiments, from large-scale money printing to zero interest rates, in addition to a series of crises that shook global stability, culminating in a global pandemic that brought the planet to a standstill.   The Era of Unconventional Monetary Policy: To counter the effects of the Great Recession, major central banks, led by the U.S. Federal Reserve, resorted to tools that were not in standard textbooks. Policies like "Quantitative Easing" (QE), which is essentially electronic money printing to buy financial assets, became the norm. The goal was to keep interest rates low and encourage lending, but it also led to asset pr...