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Money is the largest quantifiable asset class, exceeding AI, food, oil and gas, water, government spending, and defense combined.
Farooq Malik asserts that the global monetary system is the largest asset class, dwarfing all other major sectors combined. ✦ AI generated
Farooq Malik · The Generalist · 2026-08-18 · original ↗
“Money, quantifiable, is larger than AI, it's larger than food, it's larger than oil and gas, it's larger than municipal water supplies. It's larger than government spending. It's larger than defense. It's all of these combined.”
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- ·Global money supply exceeds all other sectors
- ·Dwarfs AI, food, oil & gas combined
- ·Surpasses government spending and defense
- ·All major sectors combined fall short
- ·AI industry — fast-growing yet smaller
- ·Food sector — essential yet outweighed
- ·Oil & gas — energy backbone exceeded
- ·Municipal water — critical infrastructure surpassed
- ·Government spending worldwide outpaced
- ·Defense budgets globally surpassed
- ·Money supply: largest quantifiable asset
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