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Fed Needs to Monitor 'Historic' Capex Boom, Goldman's Kaplan Says

Bloomberg

June 17, 2026

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Narrative Analysis: Bandwagon

Fed Needs to Monitor 'Historic' Capex Boom, Goldman's Kaplan Says

Robert Kaplan, Goldman Sachs vice chair and former Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president, says the US is in the midst of an historic capital spending boom driven by infrastructure for AI and computing power. He speaks during an interview on Bloomberg Open Interest. (Source: Bloomberg)

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