On the Money Café this week, Alan Kohler and James Thomson — struck down by COVID yet again — try to wrap their heads around AI, the past and present tense of the budget, the so-called commodity windfall and who gets credit for the surplus. Also: bitcoin; Charter Hall and REITs; banks making money; three things for an inflationary world; Japan falling behind in the EV race; NAB shares and the RBA's fine-tuning.

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