Talking about the U.S. stock market: The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq index took 5 months (150 days) from peaking and consolidating to declining, while it only took a short 2 weeks (16 days) to bounce back from the bottom and break new highs (see Figure 1). Once again, the U.S. stock market has delivered a direct blow to the skeptics of "America's collapse" and "AI bubble theory" with concrete actions;