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# Wall Street Unveils Perpetual Earnings Machine in Which Everybody Marks Everybody Else’s AI Investment Higher
- URL: https://www.dailydebasement.com/wall-street-unveils-perpetual-earnings-machine-in-which-everybody-marks-everybody-elses-ai-investment-higher/
- Published: 2026-08-26T12:00:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-01T13:41:49.000Z
- Author: The Daily Debasement
- Tags: News, Markets, Tech

**NEW YORK** — Wall Street analysts announced this week that the artificial intelligence boom has entered a more advanced phase in which companies can increase earnings simply by owning stakes in other companies that everyone has recently agreed are worth more.

The breakthrough follows a wave of mark-to-market gains tied to investments in private AI firms, allowing companies to report stronger results without the traditional burden of selling additional goods or services.

“This is a major productivity improvement,” said one analyst. “In the old economy, you had to manufacture something, find customers, collect revenue and control costs. Now another investor can just show up at a higher valuation.”

Under the emerging model, Company A invests in AI startup B. Company C later invests in B at a higher valuation. Company A then records a gain, boosting its earnings and potentially its own stock price, which may encourage Company D to invest in A.

Analysts said the system could become effectively self-sustaining as long as every company continues believing every other company is becoming more valuable.

Several banks have reportedly begun updating valuation models to replace discounted cash flow analysis with a simpler methodology based on asking, “Who invested last?”

At press time, markets were awaiting the next funding round needed to confirm that all previous funding rounds had been correct.

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