It’s the question on virtually everyone’s mind as 2025 winds down — have AI stocks formed an investment bubble?

“It’s probably happening,” said personal finance journalist Rob Carrick on an edition of the Canadian Advisor.cast last month. “Whenever you inject massive amounts of hype into a futuristic technology that we can semi-perceive … it’s almost inevitable there’s going to be a bubble.”

Carrick doesn’t believe that this is anything like the dot-com bust — an obvious analogy — but there are plenty of smart people taking profits off the table.

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