The world of finance is beginning to dwarf planet Earth. This was stated by Harvard historian Niall Ferguson in his book. The triumph of money (Debate, 2011, updated in 2024). Over the years, this trend has solidified, and the financial economy is outpacing the real world. A prime example is the large technology companies in the United States, especially those most closely related to artificial intelligence (AI). These are companies that have surpassed historic price levels and are beginning to raise alarms not only about the existence of a bubble, which no one doubts, but also about its potential bursting.

For some years now, Chinese brands have been landing in Europe. Unlike traditional manufacturers from the Old Continent and the United States, Chinese brands are relatively unknown in the West, so the large industrial conglomerates of the Asian giant have chosen to acquire names from traditional European manufacturers to revive them and revive the former splendor of their name, as in the case of the brand. On other occasions, however, Chinese brands propose new names with local reminiscences, as in the case of Ebro, or directly imported from China, as in the case of Omoda or BYD.

Uncertainties cause insecurities. And insecurities encourage authoritarianism. In the first stage, it seems that there will be a congruence between the economic and power orientations of the White House and the court of business magnates who support it: the Magnificent Seven (The Magnificent Seven) of the new technological imperialism (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla).