In this episode of The Financial Guys, hosts Glenn Wiggle and Mike Lomas argue that policies favored by Democratic leadership have left Western New York's economy underdeveloped, pointing to struggling assets like the Walden Galleria and Niagara Falls and to trade that increasingly bypasses the region via the new Gordie Howe Bridge near Detroit. They criticize New York's handling of crime and public safety, react to New York City mayoral politics and a proposed pied-à-terre tax, and characterize progressive economic views as hostile to success. Much of the conversation centers on Governor Kathy Hochul's moratorium on data centers, which the hosts frame as self-defeating in what they describe as an energy-and-AI race between the United States and China. They discuss potential sites like the former Bethlehem Steel property and shuttered power plants in Dunkirk and Somerset, and play a clip of an entrepreneur alleging Chinese-linked funding behind opposition to Utah data-center projects. The episode closes with Mike's market commentary on volatility and rebalancing, followed by a segment in which the hosts contend that figures like Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx should face prosecution over pandemic-era decisions.

00:00:00 - Intro and catching up
00:01:50 - Western New York decline and the Galleria
00:04:43 - Trade bypassing New York, Niagara Falls
00:07:32 - NYC mayoral politics and the pied-à-terre tax
00:10:32 - Hochul's data center moratorium and the US-China AI race
00:15:16 - Where to build data centers: Bethlehem Steel, Dunkirk, Somerset
00:20:15 - Utah data centers and alleged Chinese-linked funding
00:29:17 - Market volatility and rebalancing
00:31:45 - Fauci, Birx, and calls for prosecution
00:39:44 - Closing and services