The U.S. housing market is currently experiencing a severe slowdown and freeze, but it is undergoing a painful, localized market correction rather than a total structural collapse. While recent first-quarter real estate metrics highlight dramatic drops in mortgage originations and transaction volumes, the narrative that every sector is being "decimated" stems from extreme gridlock caused by stubborn mortgage rates lingering in the mid-to-high 6 percent range.
In this 30 May 2026 published TRIGGERnometry video, hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster talks with Dwarkesh Patel, one of the most prominent interviewers in the artificial intelligence space, who uses the conversation to outline how rapidly advancing frontier AI systems will introduce massive, unexpected transformations to global power, labor, and society.
