A term is coined for spending a transient edge to build the next one

Claim

The AI boom is keeping the global economy afloat through a trade war and a closed strait, supplying a third of US growth in what the IMF calls a tug of war between supply and demand shocks, with every edge traded for the next — a pattern now named moation, spending today's transient advantage to build tomorrow's before it is competed away.

Reported metric: 1/3 of US growth

Reporting date: 2026-08-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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