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The Ultimate AI Debate
6 november 2026 · 1 uur 27 min
Before you watch: Lees meer
We're hosting an EMERGENCY subscriber call tonight at 7:30 PM ET.
The AI trade is coming apart in real time, and I'm going live with Noble Update subscribers tonight to walk through exactly where I stand. The Zoom meeting details:
AI is a wonderful product and a lousy investment, and I went toe to toe with Gene Munster of Deepwater on exactly that in a debate on ZeroHedge.
Gene thinks we're in the third inning and called this a buy opportunity. I think the internet already showed us how this ends. The bulls of 1999 were right about the internet, and anyone who owned Nortel, Lucent or Global Crossing still got wiped out.
If the payoff on AI were so obvious, the market would hand these companies the money freely. Instead Nvidia has to play the bank of AI and back its own customers so they can keep buying its chips.
It's a commodity, the Chinese are doing it for 95% less, and the bond market is already sending the bill.
This was a fun debate, and the bulls have nothing left but copium.
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The Final Cash Out
4 november 2026 · 40 min
Wall Street tried to sell WeWork to the public at $45 billion, and weeks after the IPO fell apart, SoftBank put it on its own books at $4 billion. Lees meer
My friend David Trainer of New Constructs was one of the first to call out WeWork, and he thinks Anthropic is the same movie with a much bigger ending. He calls it the final cash out, and we went through exactly how it works:
* How your index fund, pension and 401k end up holding the bag
* The $900 billion of purchase commitments, roughly 45 times revenue
* The vendor costs Anthropic wants kept out of its earnings
* The red flag its own auditors raised on internal controls
* The shares insiders can sell within days of the IPO
The crash will be EPIC, and David cuts through the noise in this one.
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Replay for the Noble Update Zoom Call (with Peter Boockvar)
3 november 2026 · 5 min
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Our subscriber call last night was TERRIFIC.
The election is today, and I told subscribers exactly how I'm positioned for what comes after it. My friend Peter Boockvar joined us too.
We talked about:
* Why $200 oil is on the table, even if the war ends
* What I expect from the market once the election is behind us
* The simplest way I know to own uranium
* What to ch…
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Don’t be their exit liquidity
2 november 2026 · 1 min
The tech bros are lining YOU up to be their exit liquidity, and the Anthropic IPO is how they plan to do it. Lees meer
Anthropic just disclosed $895B in spending commitments ahead of its IPO, and Robinhood is already fighting for a piece of the shares Anthropic may set aside for retail investors. When the people who got in early want the public holding the bag, you should be angry, very angry.
I'll go through all of it tonight on our subscriber call at 7:30 PM EST, along with the process behind our 70% long/short spread.
The Zoom details are in the post below:
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The S&P 500 went NOWHERE in October
30 oktober 2026 · 3 min
Energy was up 11.8% and tech was down 2.7% through Thursday, and we were long energy and short tech the whole time. Lees meer
Our long/short spread is now 70.1% (119% annualized), and all 12 of our scored shorts are winners.
If all you owned was the index, you got a flat month and MISSED every bit of it.
The tide is going out. Money isn’t cheap anymore, so valuation and fundamentals matter again, and the stocks priced on stories are the first to go. I think the tech rout is just getting started.
On Sunday at 10 AM ET I’m going live with Noble Update subscribers to go through the portfolio and our process, and to explain why I think SpaceX is about to crash - instructions to join are below and replays will be available:
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The Most Hated Sector Is Where the Value Is
23 oktober 2026 · 48 min
All it takes to break the AI picks and shovels trade is order growth slowing from 30% to 15%. That's STILL double-digit growth, but the stocks can get crushed anyway. Lees meer
My friend Peter Boockvar joined me, and he thinks this is gut check time for the whole trade:
* The warning lights already flashing on the AI dashboard, from Chinese chipmakers to scrapped data center IPOs
* Why the memory chip boom peaked within weeks of a Chinese rival going public
* The credit market pricing a 55% chance that one AI darling defaults within 5 years
* The cyclical chip stock that just became the top holding in a major value ETF, and why that should worry you
* The most hated sector in the market that Peter loves right now
You can also watch the full conversation on Youtube:
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The bond market just started calling the AI trade's bluff
23 oktober 2026 · 14 min
Last week CoreWeave's bonds traded at yields around 15%, and the cost of insuring its debt implied roughly a 60% chance of default within 5 years. Oracle's default insurance hit a record high at the same time. Lees meer
That's what it looks like when narratives and dreams run into a lack of cash flow and a mountain of debt.
When easy money dries up, the most indebted company with the weakest fundamentals gets shot first, which is why CoreWeave is at the front of the line. It's our biggest short, we added to it 2 weeks ago, and I think it's a better short at around $60 than it was at $107.
As Hemingway put it, you go bankrupt gradually, then suddenly.
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The Insurance Reckoning with Tom Gober
21 oktober 2026 · 56 min
This is the final episode of our series with Tom Gober. Lees meer
Last episode ended with Tom challenging the offshore reinsurers to show us the $1.5 trillion, and in Episode 4, he shows you which companies are behind it.
Just 40 companies account for 85% of it, and the biggest sends $235.7 billion to a single offshore affiliate while holding only $4 billion of surplus, which Tom describes as moving money from one pocket to another, like "trust me, bro, I got this."
Here's what we're going over in Episode 4 "The Offshore Black Box":
* Tom maps every internal reinsurance deal at a household name in American insurance, with billions swirling between its own companies and all of it tapping into 7 captives in Arizona where you can't get any information.
* Tom shows how a company you'd recognize asked Texas to approve a reinsurance deal worth more than $20 billion with its own affiliate, and when it never heard back, it disclosed the deal as "non-disallowed."
* Tom ranks the 25 carriers he worries about most, and at the top of the list, just over 1% of the higher-risk assets going bad would wipe out the entire surplus.
* Tom shows that over the last 9 years, the industry's surplus grew by about 50% while the affiliated reinsurance he's worried about doubled.
We also call out 9 state insurance commissioners by name, so stay for that.
I'm very bearish on private equity and private credit, and this episode made me even more so. Insurance companies have been a huge source of money for those firms, and a lot of that paper ended up in 401(k)s and pension plans, so a firefighter in Peoria who's never thought about private credit may already own it.
Over 4 episodes, Tom has taken us from a recorder hidden in a briefcase to a $1.5 trillion question the regulators still haven't answered, and neither of us got paid a cent to do it. We did it because the people who've paid their premiums on time for years deserve to know where their money went.
I'm asking every American who watche…
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The Insurance Reckoning with Tom Gober
17 oktober 2026 · 31 min
Last episode, we left off with Tom Gober about to reveal a secret document he found in a company president’s personal files, and Episode 3 opens with what it said. Lees meer
A CFO in a criminal case was recorded calling these offshore deals “a little bit like morphine,” and Tom explains why: once you start, the hole gets bigger and you need a bigger dose.
Here’s what we’re going over in Episode 3 “The Secret Side Letter”:
* Tom tells you what was in the side letter hidden behind a reinsurance contract that looked perfect to an examiner, from a case that sent the man in control to prison for 18 and a half years, and you’ll hear what happened when the FBI knocked on his door in Del Mar.
* Tom puts the cushion of the entire US life and annuity industry at about $650 billion, and he says more than that sits in secret captives alone, while more than $1 trillion has gone offshore, out of sight.
* Tom shows what happened at a big insurance group after KKR took it over from Goldman Sachs, including a carrier with about $3.7 billion in affiliated investments sitting on roughly $200 million of surplus, where a 6% haircut would wipe out its entire surplus.
* Big institutions hold more than $500 billion of short-term notes issued through these insurers, and at one of those companies, a legal opinion puts those investors on equal footing with policyholders like you, which Tom says means they’ll see trouble coming first and get to the exit before you do.
Tom also names the two insurers he loves, so stay for that.
In my world, if you sell a stock through one broker and buy it right back through another, that’s painting the tape, and you’re not allowed to do it because it kills true price discovery. When the same owner sits on both sides of an insurance company’s investments, it looks eerily similar to me.
Tom ends this one with a simple message for the offshore reinsurers and secret captives: if the $1.5 trillion is really there, show us.
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The era of easy money is over, and the market made that very clear today.
17 oktober 2026 · 6 min
Our long/short spread widened to 67.4% today, with our longs up 25.9% on average and our shorts down 41.6%. Lees meer
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We made money on both sides of the book, which is exactly what a hedge fund is supposed to do.
But the people chasing momentum and narratives are having a very different day.
When the tide of easy liquidity goes out, the momentum and narrative bros find out what they really own, and anyone who's been doing the work on valuation and fundamentals finds this market pretty easy to read.
We doubled down on a lot of our shorts last week, and CoreWeave alone is down almost 25% since we added to it on October 8.
If you only started investing after the financial crisis, all you've ever known is more liquidity, and that game is OVER. I'm not calling a crash, because we're long and short, but the downside from here looks much bigger than the upside, and I have far more conviction in my shorts than my longs.
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LAST CHANCE: The investment event of the year doubles in price tomorrow
16 oktober 2026 · 3 min
Today is the last day you can get into the Best Technical Ideas Online Summit for $99, and I couldn’t be MORE EXCITED about this one. Lees meer
I like to say that putting on these summits is like coaching an All-American team. Most conferences are stuck with whoever’s on their roster, while we get to pick the best players in the country.
On October 27 and 28, that team is John Roque, Rich Ross, David Keller, Brian Shannon and 16 more of the best technicians on Wall Street, and I’m hosting the summit in collaboration with Bill Kelleher.
Each speaker brings 3 ideas, so you walk away with 60 of them over 2 days. It runs 10 AM to 4 PM ET with replays if you can’t watch live, and every session goes straight to the charts with no fireside chats and no bloviation.
The focus is ACTIONABLE, MONEY-MAKING IDEAS.
Back in the day, hedge fund guys would get together for stock idea dinners where the price of admission was an idea, and you walked out with a notebook full of them.
This summit brings that experience to the individual investor, and that’s what democratizing finance the right way looks like.
I wish I’d had access to something like this when I was starting out at Fidelity 45 years ago.
Conferences with this kind of firepower cost thousands of dollars to attend. You can’t even buy a good dinner for $99, and today that’s the price of 60 ideas from the best chart readers in the business.
If you’re wondering why you should care what technicians have to say:
This market runs on narrative dominance, and the chart is where you see what the money is really doing. If you're not willing to spend $99 to hear what these 20 people see in the charts, are you really serious about your money?
The early bird price ends today, and tomorrow the ticket goes to $199.
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It’s a market of stocks.
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Oil, AI & What Breaks Next
15 oktober 2026 · 42 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Maintain a heavy 50% allocation to energy trades: The risk of escalation remains elevated, physical inventories are depleted, and supply continues to lag behind demand.
* Re-evaluate Petrobras (PBR) as a buy following political re-rating: The stock offers upside toward $30–$35 due to favorable election runoff dynamics, capital rotation, and strong underlying fundamentals despite past governance discounts.
* Capitalize on Methanex (MEOH) undervaluation: Take advantage of severe global supply constraints resulting from blocked Iranian methanol exports and low US feedstock gas costs, which set up a strong upside re-rating.
* Trim gains in tanker equities: Reduce exposure as duration risks grow and substantial new vessel deliveries enter the market around 2027.
* Hedge against rising 10-year Treasury yields: Prepare for equity market volatility following the election, as higher cost of capital impacts debt-financed sectors and corporate earnings.
Executive Summary
Energy markets remain structurally tight due to depleted inventories, impaired flows, and ongoing geopolitical friction in the Strait of Hormuz. Despite short-term price fluctuations, deferred long-term oil futures continue to rise, strengthening cash flow valuations for producers. Petrobras and Methanex represent asymmetric long opportunities driven by political developments and supply disruptions, respectively. Conversely, caution is warranted in semiconductor equities and debt-dependent growth sectors due to overcapacity risks and surging Treasury yields. Investors should prepare for potential equity market friction post-election as corporate earnings digest higher capital costs.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Long-Term Futures Drive Energy Equities: Equity valuations depend more on the deferred futures curve than spot prices; sustained $80–$90 oil over several years creates durable, higher-rated cash flows.
* Focus on long-dated strip pricing rather th…
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Stocks Could Go Nowhere While Inflation Eats Your Money
14 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
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1. Strategic Actions and Decisions
* Re-evaluate long-term bond exposure: Shift positioning away from long Treasury holdings as persistent global capital demands and rising inflation expectations push yields significantly higher.
* Capitalize on French and European fiscal shifts: Monitor European political realignment and fiscal commitments, such as Le Pen’s proposed debt break, for opportunistic bond and currency positioning.
* Assess AI tech ecosystem exposure: Monitor top hyperscaler capital expenditure levels and SpaceX or SoftBank market signals to identify the turning point in the tech infrastructure cycle.
* Reallocate capital from US equities to Japanese equities: Underweight broad US equities facing compressed valuation multiples while going long Japanese equities supported by structural loan growth and non-inflated real estate.
* Divest from traditional oil and energy assets: Reduce structural exposure to crude oil as rising EV adoption in major markets like China structurally breaks the historical link between GDP growth and oil demand.
Executive Summary
Global capital markets face a fundamental regime change defined by a rising cost of capital, structural inflation, and fiscal expansion. Driven by an aggressive capital war in AI infrastructure and persistent government spending, interest rates are poised to remain higher for longer, rendering standard backward-looking portfolio models obsolete. Broad US equities appear historically overvalued against bond yields, while Japanese equities present compelling upside due to structural bank lending growth. Furthermore, oil demand faces structural decline from EV adoption, whereas gold remains a critical physical hedge against central bank treasury freezes and fiat debasement.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Rising cost of capital is driven by structural capital…
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2 DAYS LEFT: Wall Street's best technicians present their 60 best ideas for $99
14 oktober 2026 · 6 min
20 of the best technicians on Wall Street are bringing you 60 ideas, and the $99 price ends Friday. Lees meer
On October 27 and 28, John Roque, Rich Ross, David Keller, Brian Shannon and 16 more will each present their best ideas at the Best Technical Ideas Online Summit, which I'm hosting in collaboration with my friend Bill Kelleher. It runs 10 AM to 4 PM ET both days, and the replays are available if you can't watch live.
Thousands have attended these summits, and I think this one is going to be our best yet.
Even at $199 this would be a steal, but you can still lock in $99 until Friday:
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Our own calls are running hot too: the spread between our longs and our shorts is 63%, and that's before you annualize it. That's the kind of alpha we chase, and it's exactly what these 20 technicians bring to the table.
This is our kind of market. Dispersion is huge right now, with money to be made on both the long side and the short side, and that leaves plenty of great pitches to hit. I couldn't be more excited about what I see coming.
I cover what's happening in the market in the full video, so give it a watch!
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The Insurance Reckoning with Tom Gober
13 oktober 2026 · 46 min
Last week we showed you the $2 trillion time bomb sitting inside America's life insurance companies, and in Episode 2 of our series with Tom Gober, we start naming names. Lees meer
Tom calls it the cash cow: premiums pour into an insurance company 365 days a year, and when a private equity owner sits on both sides of the table, he can steer that money into his own businesses while the policyholders pay him a fee for the privilege.
Here's what we're going over in Episode 2 “Sports Empires & the Liquidity Trap” of The Insurance Reckoning with Tom Gober:
* The billionaire who owns the Dodgers is under a federal criminal investigation in New York, and Tom shows how his insurers ended up with roughly 400% of their surplus in his own paper when the NAIC suggests a cap of 50%.
* Tom called out this exact scheme back in 2014 as the expert on a complaint that exposed a straw man buying the reinsurer so it wouldn't look affiliated, and the case settled almost immediately. In the 12 years since, none of the state regulators raised it, and it took a federal prosecutor in a criminal case to bring it back up.
* South Carolina just moved to put 2 companies into receivership, and their private equity owner is the same group that sued its own rating agency to stop a downgrade. That group has 3 more carriers in Utah, and Tom says the exact same playbook is running at the other private equity controlled carriers. Since we filmed, Florida has suspended the life insurer's license in the state.
* If your insurer moves its money to an affiliate offshore, you have no legal claim on it, and Tom puts the liabilities that have already left US life insurers for offshore reinsurers and secret captives at more than $1.6 trillion.
I got angry in this one. I believe the zombie companies need to go bankrupt and the people running them need to go to jail, because not a single big bank CEO did time after 2008 and look at the mess we have now. I also made a promise on camera to every state insurance reg…
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Oil, AI & Debt: Who Blinks First?
10 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Adopt a defensive investment posture and hold cash: Leaders should consider defensive positioning and holding cash because high inflation, skyrocketing interest rates, and vulnerable market internals create severe risks of post-election market shocks.
* Monitor regional bank earnings closely: Executives must watch upcoming regional bank earnings reports for potential negative surprises, as leveraged asset classes and rising defaults threaten financial stability.
* Evaluate natural gas and uranium for long-term exposure: Investors should look toward natural gas liquids and depressed uranium markets (such as the Sprott Uranium ETF) as asymmetric risk-reward opportunities with strong long-term demand fundamentals.
* Reassess real estate holdings and valuation risks: Market participants need to factor high mortgage rates into real estate valuations rather than relying on stale online index estimates, as frozen inventories and rising defaults signal impending downward pressure.
* Track political and regulatory risks surrounding data centers: Leadership teams should account for increasing local moratoriums, state-level pushback, and potential congressional hearings targeting AI infrastructure and related financing structures.
Executive Summary
The discussion addresses severe macroeconomic pressures, escalating geopolitical conflict in the Middle East, and systemic risks across energy, real estate, and artificial intelligence financing. Energy logistics and refining constraints have driven true consumer costs far above headline figures, heavily draining economic liquidity. Meanwhile, massive circular debt financing in the AI sector mirrors historical financial bubbles like the savings and loan crisis. Consumer stress is mounting, highlighted by rising credit card delinquencies and a frozen housing market. Analysts advise maintaining a defensive cash posture, scrutinizing regional bank exposure, and preparing for increased regula…
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The Insurance Reckoning with Tom Gober
8 oktober 2026 · 48 min
I believe the scandal building inside America's life insurance industry is bigger than Madoff and bigger than Enron, and it might approach the size of the 2008 financial crisis. Lees meer
I just sat down in New York with the man who's been warning about it for 41 years, and if you want to know what's really going on inside these companies, Tom Gober is THAT guy…
Tom is a certified fraud examiner who started his career as an insurance examiner for the state of Mississippi. In his early 20s, he caught a company hiding a hole in its balance sheet with sham reinsurance and wrote it into his exam report, which he signed personally. A few weeks later he pulled the original from the state archives and found his findings had been RIPPED OUT and retyped clean, with his signature still on it.
So he went to the US Attorney's office and spent the next two and a half years working undercover with the FBI, with a recorder hidden behind Velcro in his briefcase that he switched on in every exam where the books were cooked. He only broke cover the morning he walked in and saw the accounting department stuffing envelopes that urged people with maturing CDs to buy annuities from a company he knew was broke.
That night he drew a map of the building for 40 FBI agents, and the tapes he made put people in prison.
He told me he doesn't know of a single other person who understands these schemes and isn't making money from them.
Here's what we're going over in Part 1 “The Whistleblower” of The Insurance Reckoning with Tom Gober:
* One of the biggest annuity companies in America moved $235 billion of liabilities offshore to its own affiliate, and Tom names it on camera.
* The day your insurance company fails, your money gets frozen, and the fund that's supposed to protect you has $0 set aside.
* 51 human beings stand between this entire industry and insolvency, and Tom believes some of them know exactly what's going on and are letting it happen.
* Industry insiders are calling Tom from all …
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Wall Street's best technicians present their 60 best ideas
8 oktober 2026 · 1 min
20 of the BEST market technicians on Wall Street are bringing 60 ideas to the summit I’m hosting together with Bill Kelleher on October 27 and 28, and the timing couldn’t be better: Lees meer
This market runs on narrative dominance, where the fanciest story on TV gets the money until the CHART says otherwise.
Mr. Market hands out a scorecard every single day, and these 20 experts read it for a living.
The lineup is a murderers’ row: John Roque, Rich Ross, David Keller, Brian Shannon are just the start. You get all of them with their 60 ideas for $99.
Find me anyone who hands you REAL ALPHA like this.
The Best Technical Ideas Online Summit has replays if you can’t watch live, and early bird tickets are $99 until October 16. After that the price goes to $199.
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Noble Update Subscriber Call - Oct. 5 Replay
5 oktober 2026 · 3 min
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Our subscriber call today was TERRIFIC.
We talked about:
* Why rates still have room to run
* Where the real bubble in this market is hiding
* What I expect once the election is behind us
* Which scoreboard names I'd still buy today, and where I'm taking profits.
* My best advice for anyone coming off a bad year
I highly recommend you watch the full replay!
Be sure to be…
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REMINDER: Noble Update Call today at 12 PM EST
5 oktober 2026 · 2 min
The Noble Update has doubled in the last 60 days, and that's because of YOU. Thank you for the extraordinary support. Lees meer
Our longs are up 24.4% on average and our shorts are down 36.5%, which puts a 60.9% spread between the 2 books.
The results matter, and the process behind them matters even more. That's what today's subscriber call at 12 PM Eastern is about. I'll walk you through our picks and our process, and I'll explain how to read the scoreboard (since there was some confusion).
Know what you own.
We've got content coming in Q4 that I think is going to blow your mind.
Many happy returns.
If you're not a subscriber yet, you can join here and join The Noble Update call today at 12 PM Eastern (you will be able to access the replays if you can't make it live):
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The Ultimate AI Demolition With Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran, and Nobody Special
5 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 30 min
This panel is the AI skeptics' version of the '92 Dream Team: Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran and Nobody Special, all on one stage. This is what you'll hear: Lees meer
* We run the math on how much of Big Tech’s profits this buildout could wipe out, and the number is staggering.
* We go through the leaked Anthropic filing and the numbers that never made the headlines.
* We expose the balance sheet games the biggest names in tech are now playing to keep the money flowing.
* We follow the risk all the way down to who’s really holding it, and it’s probably you.
* We cut through the “rogue AI” headlines and get to what’s actually going on.
* And you’ll hear a story about OpenAI that you won’t believe until you hear it.
We also get into what the fallout looks like from here, and where the real opportunity sits once the dust settles.
I’ve called this the biggest misallocation of capital in history, and this panel shows you exactly why.
Watch it on Youtube here:
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Uranium Alpha
2 oktober 2026 · 56 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Assess the $15 billion physical uranium market structure: The underlying commodity market is exceptionally thin, cash-only, and lacks liquid derivatives or futures, creating structural supply vulnerabilities despite steady global reactor growth.
* Capitalize on pricing disconnects in physical contracts: Utilities are entering long-term contracts with price floors near $105/lb and caps at $130/lb, while spot prices linger around $89/lb—below greenfield mine incentive costs of $120–$130/lb.
* Prepare for supply squeezes driven by policy mandates: US legislation mandating domestic uranium purchases and banning Russian enriched imports faces physical impossibilities, as current US production is only 3 million pounds against 55 million pounds of annual consumption.
* Short speculative SMR and fusion ventures while favoring proven operators: Highly hyped SMR startups face massive safety, regulatory, and technical risks, making established defense/industrial suppliers with existing miniaturized reactor capabilities far more viable.
* Position for sum-of-the-parts revaluation in tier-one miners: Primary uranium producers present significant asymmetric upside through overlooked asset stakes, such as pending nuclear services unit IPOs, alongside long-term physical commodity holding vehicles.
Executive Summary
The global nuclear fuel supply chain faces a structural supply-demand deficit driven by low utility inventories, political restrictions on Russian imports, and lengthy mine development timelines. Despite long-term fundamentals supporting substantial price increases, physical uranium and mining equities remain artificially depressed due to high interest rates, illiquid spot markets, and transient macro sentiment. Strategic opportunities exist in physical uranium holding vehicles, established tier-one miners with hidden asset value, and military-contracted nuclear engineering providers. Conversely, early-stage fusion companies a…
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THIS ANTHROPIC IPO IS THE MOST DANGEROUS DEAL I'VE SEEN IN MY 45-YEAR CAREER
30 september 2026 · 2 min
Anthropic's own IPO filing tells you why: Lees meer
The prospectus warns that its AI models could resist being shut down and could hide or manipulate information. If you run security at a big bank, that's the last thing you're letting anywhere near your customers' money.
The surveys back that up too: 69% of IT and security leaders say security worries are slowing down their AI agent rollouts, and only 1 in 5 American businesses use AI in any part of their work.
And the revenue Anthropic does have leans on a VERY short list. Nearly 25% of last year's sales came from just 2 customers, and plenty of its big customers aren't locked into long-term contracts.
Now look at the bills:
Anthropic has signed up for $518 billion of computing over the next decade, and 80% of it gets paid whether the customers show up or not. The filing says so itself: "If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference."
What could possibly go wrong?
Every dollar of that $518 billion sits in somebody else's revenue forecast. Wall Street's tech analysts have the sector's cash flow doubling to $2.4 trillion by 2028, and the analysts who cover the customers are forecasting a much smaller pile of cash to pay for it.
Wayne Gretzky's father famously taught him "to skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been." For 3 years the puck was chips and data centers, and the people selling them got rich.
Now the puck is heading to the customer, and the customer is SCARED.
At $2 trillion you're paying for NARRATIVE DOMINANCE, a story where every company on earth runs on AI. When the customers don't show up on schedule, most of that $518 billion still comes due, and whoever holds the stock eats the difference.
We skated to where this puck was going a long time ago:
In January we showed you that most CFOs couldn't point to any measurable return on their AI spending. Those CFOs sign the checks this whole thing depends on, and 8 months later their security teams are still standing in the …
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Bond Yields to 10%
30 september 2026 · 49 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Divest from fixed income assets and prepare for elevated yields: Reallocate capital out of bonds as structural factors—such as heavy government issuance and persistent inflation—drive 10-year Treasury yields toward 10% by 2032.
* Monitor critical Treasury yield thresholds for potential equity market stress: Track the 2-year Treasury yield, as a monthly close above 5.30% signals a rapid move toward 6%–7%, which equity markets cannot absorb.
* Capitalize on capital flows into non-U.S. treasury assets: Adjust institutional allocation strategies to account for foreign marginal buyers preferring U.S. megacap tech equities over U.S. Treasuries.
* Increase portfolio exposure to energy and real assets: Overweight real assets and energy equity allocations, watching Brent crude for a breakout above $111/barrel that could drive oil toward $200 due to supply vulnerabilities.
* Participate in alternative global settlement systems: Evaluate exposures to non-dollar trade rails, such as Saudi Arabia’s gold-backed vaults for oil transactions, which create a bifurcated currency regime.
Executive Summary
This interview addresses structural shifts in global bond markets, energy supply dynamics, and international capital flows. Strong consensus among European institutional investors suggests a belief in a 5% cap on U.S. 10-year yields, yet long-term structural factors indicate bond yields could eventually reach 10%. Marginal non-U.S. buyers are actively redirecting capital from U.S. Treasuries toward U.S. megacap technology equities, tying broader economic stability directly to equity performance. Meanwhile, persistent energy supply constraints and non-dollar trade settlement mechanisms—such as gold-for-oil exchanges in the Middle East—signal continued inflationary pressure and a bifurcated global monetary system.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* The secular bull market in bonds has ended: Shift portfolio positioning from fixed income …
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Let me take you back to 1990
29 september 2026 · 3 min
In June 1990 I told Louis Rukeyser on Wall Street Week that the Japanese bull market was over, and the Nikkei didn’t see its 1989 high again until 2024. Lees meer
The reason was simple:
Japanese stocks were still trading at 50 times earnings while their long bonds paid around 7%. A stock at 50 times earnings gives you a 2% earnings yield, and 2% can’t compete with a 7% government bond.
In the same interview I warned that any company with a leveraged balance sheet in a cyclical industry could get into trouble, and I singled out the airlines. The recession started the following month, and within 7 months Continental and Pan Am had both filed for bankruptcy.
I still run those same 2 tests on every stock today, comparing what the business earns me against what a bond pays me and checking how much debt is holding it up. With long-term rates pushing higher, a lot of the AI darlings are priced on stories and financed with borrowed money, and the crowd is still convinced this time is “different.”
I learned my trade under Peter Lynch at Fidelity and ran the #1 mutual fund in the country in 1985, my first year managing money. I went on to found 2 hedge funds that each grew past $1 billion, and decades later the method hasn't changed:
Our longs are up 24.4% on average and our shorts are down 36.5%, a 60.9% spread that works out to 133% annualized, and 21 of our 24 scored calls are winners.
Stock prices follow earnings, and right now that test points us long energy and the gold miners and short the consumer names, tech and anything sensitive to interest rates. Dispersion is increasing, so the gap between the right stocks and the wrong ones keeps getting wider.
Every position we hold is inside The Noble Update, including the 10 new ideas from the last month, and new picks keep getting added.
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The narrative chasers are about to find out what a stock picker's market feels like
27 september 2026 · 4 min
Many subscribers asked for a single place to track all of our stock picks, so we built it: Lees meer
A live scoreboard with the entry and current price on every position.
21 of our 24 scored calls are winners, and the 3 that aren’t are on there in red, because I’m not in the business of hiding losers.
Ask whoever you’re paying for stock picks to publish the same thing.
Most won’t, because a sheet like this shows you very quickly who does real fundamental work and who’s been riding a rising market since 2020.
“Any fool can make money when everything goes up.”
I’ve been at this for 45 years and I ran the #1 fund in the country. 2022 was a bad year for me with the ETF, and if you want to talk about it, fine, I’ve always been open about it.
But there’s a lot of dispersion in this market right now, which means there’s a lot of alpha to be had, and that’s the kind of environment I thrive on. If you’ve been chasing narratives and momentum, you’re about to find out how much harder things get when fundamentals matter again.
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Back to June 1999 | Live with George Noble
25 september 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
Macro Musings by Danny D joined me for a Substack live, and these are the 5 biggest takeaways from our conversation: Lees meer
1. The low rate world was the anomaly, and it isn't coming back.
Danny explained why rates stayed so low for so long, and why those forces have flipped:
* Last cycle had baby boomers in their peak saving years and households repairing their balance sheets after 2008, and both pushed rates down.
* This cycle, household wealth is up nearly $70 trillion and the boomers are spending their retirement savings instead of adding to them.
* The savings rate sits at 3% versus 8% last cycle, even with rates far higher.
What to do: Stop waiting for 2021 to come back and start valuing stocks like capital costs something again.
2. The Fed just changed its rulebook, and we're back in June 1999.
Danny thinks last week's FOMC was a paradigm shift, and I agree:
* Warsh called the neutral rate an academic exercise and described the hike as removing accommodation, which means the Fed thinks policy is still loose.
* The Fed is now watching nominal GDP, which has gone from 5% to 6.6% as of Q2.
* There's no forward guidance anymore, so the market has no idea how far this goes.
Greenspan ran the same playbook in 1999, and stocks and bonds played ping-pong until the 10-year hit 6.75% and things broke in March 2000.
What to do: Get out of long duration, high multiple and consumer stocks before financial conditions finally tighten.
3. The inflation gauge Wall Street trusts is broken.
* Break-evens have sat at 2.5% the entire cycle, no matter what inflation prints.
* The Fed bought far more 10-year nominals than 10-year TIPS during QE, which mechanically squeezed break-evens tighter, and now it reads that same market as proof inflation expectations are anchored.
* The University of Michigan survey has inflation expectations above 7%.
What to do: Stop plugging break-evens into your models, and stop trading off the second decimal of a CPI print.
4. Scott Bessen…
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No Easy Way Out | Sam Kovacs
22 september 2026 · 58 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Assess Central Bank Disconnect: Re-evaluate fixed-income and equities positions: Monetary policy tightening amidst a energy-driven inflation spike creates heightened downside risk for broader economic growth. [01:39]
* Capital Allocation in Energy: Maintain high exposure to energy and supply chains: Structural supply deficits, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and physical market tightness continue to support energy sector outperformance. [17:05]
* Mitigate Consumer-Exposed Risks: Divest from consumer discretionary assets: Squeezed real incomes and rising interest rates are severely impacting consumer spending power and earnings. [28:05]
* Sovereign Debt Realignment: Reduce long-duration Treasury holdings: Structural fiscal deficits and currency debasement pressures undermine the long-term thesis for holding long-dated U.S. debt. [32:40]
* AI Valuation Restructuring: Exit overpriced AI hardware and infrastructure plays: High capital expenditure requirements coupled with limited pricing power point to unfavorable long-term risk-reward profiles. [46:23]
2. Executive Summary
Federal Reserve interest rate hikes into a severe oil and diesel price shock threaten to trigger broad economic contraction rather than tame supply-driven inflation. Structural supply chain disruptions and geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East and Russia continue to constrain energy availability, creating persistent inflationary pressure. Concurrently, unsustainable U.S. fiscal spending and expanding debt levels threaten the status of long-duration Treasuries, forcing central banks globally to diversify reserves. In response, portfolio management strategies must pivot toward hard assets, energy, healthcare, and software, while aggressively exiting consumer-sensitive sectors, hyper-scalers, and highly leveraged debt-backed investments.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Policy Over-Tightening Risks Economic Contraction: Raising rates into a supply-s…
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I'm more excited about this fourth quarter than any I can remember
21 september 2026 · 4 min
Dispersion is increasing and the corrections are starting to arrive, and after 3 years where owning the index was enough, this market has started paying the people who actually know what they own. Lees meer
I've been through enough cycles to know this is where stock picking starts to matter again:
Our longs are up 28% this year and our shorts are down 40%, which puts 68 points of spread between the 2 books. It's all documented and time stamped on my feed, so go check the work yourself.
We were early on gold and the miners, early on energy, and one of the first to call the AI buildout the biggest misallocation of capital in history. None of it was a narrative and all of it was valuation and fundamentals.
That's the Fidelity way, and it's the same one Peter Lynch taught me.
45 years and five crashes since then, and everything I'm seeing says we're just getting started.
So before Q4 starts:
For the next 10 days you can still get The Noble Update Premium at $450 for the year or $45 a month. That's what this year's 68% long-short return cost the people who were already inside.
Founding Membership is $950 and includes 6 conferences a year on top of everything else. The next one is the technicians conference on October 27 and 28, where 20 of the best chartists on the street each bring 3 ideas, which puts 60 actionable money-making ideas in your hands over 2 days.
The conferences alone are worth more than the membership.
Any fool can make money in a rising market. What you're paying for is the 45 years that tell you what to own when the tide goes out.
On October 1 the annual goes to $599, the monthly goes to $99, and Founding Membership goes to $1,200. Waiting 10 days costs you $149 on the annual and $250 on Founding.
It's a market of stocks, and Q4 is where that really starts to count.
Join our journey today:
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34 years ago today...
16 september 2026 · 7 min
34 years ago today, the market broke the Bank of England for holding the pound at a price that wasn't real. Lees meer
Scott Bessent is now trying to manipulate the price of the US 10-year the exact same way.
HISTORY WILL NOT BE KIND
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This is going to be the biggest misallocation of capital in history
16 september 2026 · 11 min
Take the dot com bubble, merge it with the 2008 housing crisis, and that is roughly what we are looking at. Lees meer
You have a commodity deflating at record speed while the debt built up to produce it explodes at record speed.
What could possibly go wrong?
Normally the market fixes this by itself. Prices fall, management gets nervous, budgets get cut. But that wiring is CUT right now.
Prices never fell far enough to scare anybody, and Washington is running a deficit near 7% of GDP that papers over the damage.
So prices stopped carrying information. Now they carry a story instead.
I call it NARRATIVE DOMINANCE. Reality is beside the point. What matters is what you can get people to BELIEVE while there is enough money sloshing around to keep everyone comfortable.
One market still tells the truth:
Last month the Treasury doubled its buybacks and Wall Street read it as support. I said short bonds instead. Today the 10 year went through 5% for the first time since 2007.
Defend a price the fundamentals do not justify and the market comes for you every time.
Eventually somebody cuts a capex budget, and that day the story dies.
I do not see how this ends any other way.
Do you?
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Rates Aren’t Coming to Save You
12 september 2026 · 48 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Transition portfolio allocations toward scarce, capital-light real assets: Shift away from long-duration growth assets toward tangible asset oligopolies to protect capital against sticky inflation and rising baseline capital costs.
* Avoid over-allocating capital to hyper-cyclical semiconductor producers: Recognize the structural risks of chasing record margins in tech hardware as major tech firms build proprietary chips and capacity expansions mean-revert.
* Rebalance natural gas holdings toward royalty trusts and infrastructure: Target pure-play royalty vehicles (e.g., White Hawk) that capture nominal price increases without incurring direct operating expenses or heavy capital expenditure obligations.
* Capitalize on regional energy restructuring opportunities: Monitor and evaluate restructurings like Permian Basin Trust, which transition legacy assets into direct net profit interest streams and add land optionality for data infrastructure.
* Maintain core exposure to high-grade nuclear and uranium leaders: Gain nuclear market exposure through tier-one miners like Cameco, which offer structural operating leverage and upside via downstream assets like Westinghouse.
2. Executive Summary
This interview outlines a fundamental strategy for navigating a shifting macroeconomic regime defined by sticky inflation, persistent budget deficits, and rising interest rates. Horizon Kinetics highlights the end of the zero-interest-rate era and urges a structural shift away from high-multiple growth equities dependent on cheap capital. Instead, investors should pivot toward capital-light real assets, scarce commodity royalties, and infrastructure oligopolies that generate inflation-indexed cash flows. By focusing on high-margin royalty structures and nuclear infrastructure, leadership can mitigate downside risks while positioning portfolios to capture structural tailwinds in energy, real assets, and industrial productivity.
Key Takeawa…
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Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
11 september 2026 · 53 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Pivot capital allocation to short-term trading: Shift strategy away from duration risk and medium-to-long-term investing toward short-term algorithmic trading to navigate high macroeconomic uncertainty.
* Maintain neutral positioning on peak-cycle tanker equities: Avoid taking long-term short positions against strong cash flows while managing volatility via short-term equities and derivatives.
* Capitalize on shipyard capacity constraints and order backlogs: Monitor expanding newbuilding order books—particularly for 2027–2028 deliveries—to prepare for eventual cyclical rate collapses.
* Position for upcoming weather-driven market disruptions: Prepare for El Niño-driven trade disruptions over the next 3–6 months that favor Panamax and Supramax dry bulk vessels.
* Launch algorithmic crypto fund for high-volatility yield: Diversify firm strategy by deploying a proprietary long-short quantitative algorithm in cryptocurrency markets.
Executive Summary
The shipping sector is experiencing peak-cycle conditions across multiple subsectors, driven by high day rates, geopolitical inefficiencies, and tight shipyard capacity. However, long-term visibility is severely impaired by macroeconomic uncertainty, making extended multi-year forecasts unreliable. While strong cash flows sustain high stock valuations and retail sentiment, expanding order books through 2028 risk oversupply and an eventual market collapse. Executives should avoid long-duration directional bets and focus on short-term tactical trading. Meanwhile, dry bulk shows near-term catalyst potential driven by El Niño disruptions, whereas LNG faces prolonged weakness until 2030.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
1. Peak Cycles Obscure Duration Risk: High spot rates generate temporary super-profits that lead generalist investors to overvalue cyclical assets.
* Prioritize capital returns through dividends or asset sales over long-term equity accumulation at top-of-cycle va…
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I can't take this anymore
9 september 2026 · 3 min
Scott Bessent is either incompetent or a liar. Lees meer
Short bonds.
THIS IS INSANITY!
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If Something Can Not Go On Forever, It Will Stop
8 september 2026 · 1 uur
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Transition away from momentum-driven asset strategies: Reallocate capital toward strict, fundamental free cash flow analysis to insulate portfolios from severe day-to-day market volatility.
* Capitalize on global fiscal debt realignments: Rebalance fixed income and equity portfolios to account for high long-term interest rates and expanding US fiscal deficits.
* Target mispriced, cash-generating healthcare assets: Invest selectively in targeted pharmaceutical equity baskets that possess robust drug pipelines and at least five years of patent protection.
* Exploit semiconductor supply oligopolies: Acquire deeply discounted memory chip suppliers that hold pricing power over high-bandwidth hardware required for AI infrastructure.
* Capture emerging foreign corporate governance catalysts: Overweight international equities—specifically in Japan and Korea—benefiting from government-mandated return-on-equity reforms.
2. Executive Summary
Market price discovery is increasingly distorted by short-term momentum strategies, systemic liquidity surpluses, and unsustainable US debt service costs. As rising real interest rates devalue distant future growth projections, capital allocation must prioritize immediate, inflation-adjusted free cash flows over speculative growth narratives. High-valuation technology sectors face compressed margins due to excessive capital expenditure requirements, whereas key opportunities exist in tight refining markets, targeted mid-cap pharmaceuticals, and memory chip oligopolies. Internationally, government-led corporate governance reforms in Japan and Korea provide strong tailwinds for long-term equity performance.
3. Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* 1. High market valuations dilute long-dated cash flows: Elevated real interest rates severely penalize companies dependent on distant earnings projections.
* Focus portfolio screens strictly on short-duration, high current free-cash-flow yields rather…
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Noble Update Subscriber Call - Sept. 3 Replay
4 september 2026 · 3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit georgenoble.substack.com Lees meer
Yesterday's subscriber call was one of the BEST we've done.
There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen. Right now, decades are happening. The market is sitting near all-time highs and blissfully ignoring all of it.
Here's what we covered:
* Bonds: The real story isn't Hormuz or the CPI decimal. It's a global capex boom co…
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No Way Out | Patrick Oddoux
31 augustus 2026 · 48 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Mitigate Interest Rate Volatility: Position portfolios to be short the long end of the yield curve to hedge against rising long-term yields driven by massive deficit spending and capital competition.
* Reallocate to Tangible Real Assets: Increase structural exposure to physical commodities and gold miners with verified volume growth to counter systemic fiat currency debasement.
* De-Risk High-Debt and Discretionary Holdings: Divest from debt-laden companies and vulnerable consumer sectors facing margin compression from sticky food and input inflation.
* Target Strategic European Growth Drivers: Capitalize on European market shifts by allocating directly into defense technology and power infrastructure providers benefiting from CapEx booms.
* Execute Downside Equity Protection: Implement defensive options strategies or purchase market volatility protection ahead of political turbulence and sovereign debt risks in Europe.
2. Executive Summary Macroeconomic stability faces headwinds from escalating fiscal dominance, tightening global central bank liquidity, and a breakdown in sovereign debt demand. Aggressive U.S. deficit spending collides with a global CapEx surge, threatening long-end yield spikes and broader risk-asset valuations. Key foreign buyers—including Japan and China—are reducing U.S. Treasury holdings to protect domestic liquidity, signaling heightened currency and funding volatility. Simultaneously, European markets face imminent political stress, particularly surrounding French fiscal targets. Leaders must pivot strategies to favor defensive positioning, cash-flow-generative business models, energy grid infrastructure, and real assets like gold over leverage-dependent equities.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
1. Central Bank Liquidity Tightening: Macro headwinds are worsening as central banks prioritize inflation control over balance-sheet expansion, restricting market excess.
* Practical Lesson: Conduct …
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Rotation Rotation Rotation | David Nicoski
28 augustus 2026 · 31 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Capitalize on Sector Rotation Out of Tech: Shift allocation away from the broad tech indices into outperforming market sectors such as biotechs and healthcare. ****
* Execute Long Positions in Gold and Energy Assets: Accumulate gold, gold equities, and energy stocks during pullbacks as long-term base structures signal extended bull trends.
* Monitor Critical Technical Levels Across Key Indices: Track the S&P 500 support around the 7600 level while leveraging the 200-day moving average for downside protection on tech futures.
* Target Value Discrepancies in Mispriced Equities: Identify fundamentally mispriced individual stocks like low-P/E consumer names that are poised for significant relative outperformance.
* Mitigate Credit Risk in Overheated Construction and Data Center Suppliers: Exercise caution or build short exposure on high-default-risk targets and data center suppliers experiencing margin compression.
Executive Summary
Capital market dynamics indicate a broad sector rotation away from large-cap technology and mega-cap indices toward under-owned, value-driven sectors. Rather than evaluating index-level trajectory, current conditions favor granular stock selection. Key opportunities exist in healthcare, biotech, energy, and precious metals, all of which display strong relative-strength chart formations and expanding valuation multiples. Conversely, high-valuation market favorites, data center supply-chain infrastructure, and distressed credit names face headwinds due to labor inflation and shifting market participation. Leadership favors identifying structural inflections, deploying capital into mispriced assets, and protecting downside exposure through disciplined technical execution.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Broad Index Performance Masks Sector Alpha: Disconnect from general market indices to identify underlying sector performance divergence.
* Practical Lesson: Allocate research to cross-sector …
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Melody Wright | Daniel Frank | Nobody Special - What, Me Worry?
27 augustus 2026 · 55 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Monitor macro capital competition: Track U.S. Treasury liquidity against heavy private AI debt issuance crowding out yields.
* Prepare for commercial real estate exposure: Anticipate Q3/Q4 hard debt maturity walls in the $2.3T multifamily sector.
* Evaluate regulatory and political shifts: Factor in growing state-level moratoriums and bipartisan pushback against data centers ahead of elections.
* Hedge against hardware centralization: Capitalize on the transition from centralized data centers to localized edge computing models like Mac Minis.
* Position portfolios in real assets: Allocate defensively into precious metals, energy supply, fertilizers, and cash while reducing high-multiple tech exposure.
Executive Summary
Macroeconomic conditions reflect severe capital misallocations driven by speculative AI build-outs, elevated debt obligations, and underlying consumer weakness. Hyper-scalers and private debt markets face potential liquidity constraints, threatening tech valuations and public offerings. Concurrently, commercial real estate faces severe structural pressure due to a $2.3 trillion multifamily maturity wall lacking extension options or private credit relief. Supply-chain stress across global energy and agricultural markets further elevates inflation risks. Executives must prepare portfolios by paring down high-valuation equities and allocating toward commodities, physical energy sources, local hardware models, and capital preservation assets.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Illiquidity Risks in AI Infrastructure: Subsidizing hyper-growth through non-investment-grade private debt creates systemic refinancing vulnerability: Maintain conservative liquidity buffers to weather private-credit market dislocations.
* Impending Commercial Real Estate Stress: The multifamily sector faces an inescapable debt maturity wall without structural refinancing relief: Audit balance sheets for direct or indirect exposure …
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What Scott Bessent did today is a call to SHORT more US bonds
19 augustus 2026 · 3 min
The government couldn't find enough buyers for its own long bonds, so the government became the buyer. Lees meer
Argentina does this and Turkey does this.
We now do it 3 months before an election, and the financial press is calling it “decisive leadership.”
These are emerging market tactics, and the effect will be temporary at best.
Bessent will go down as one of the most consequential Treasury secretaries in history, and history will not be kind to him.
Short the bonds.
You cannot own enough gold.
Listen to my full take on this, and what you should own right now.
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Robin J Brooks | Between a Rock and a Hard Place
16 augustus 2026 · 30 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Capitalize on the “debasement trade” re-acceleration: Pivot investments into precious metals like gold and silver as markets walk back rate-hike expectations and yield curves steepen.
* Mitigate bond market exposure to high debt-to-GDP sovereigns: Reduce holdings in countries with unmoored fiscal policies (such as the US at 7% deficit-to-GDP and Japan at over 200%) to safeguard capital against potential yield blowups.
* Construct a resilient safe-haven basket: Diversify out of devaluing fiat currencies by allocating into a multi-asset basket featuring precious metals and sovereign assets from low-debt nations like Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany.
* Hedge against near-term oil price upside: Prepare portfolios for potential oil spikes back into the $80–$90 range given geopolitical open-ended risks and market complacency regarding Iranian supply disruptions.
* Implement targeted strategic pressure on Iranian oil infrastructure: Enforce policy via a incremental, timed campaign targeting specific oil export berths to break geopolitical stalemates and curb regional leverage.
Executive Summary
Global markets are witnessing a resurgence of the “debasement trade” as expectations for monetary tightening soften alongside weakening economic data. Concurrently, unmoored fiscal policy—evidenced by the U.S. running a 7% deficit-to-GDP ratio outside a recession—presents structural risk. Yield curves are steepening, signalling severe underlying fiscal and credibility concerns that mirror systemic risks seen in Japan and European sovereign bond markets. To protect capital from systemic fiat devaluation and rising cost of capital, executive portfolios should strategically transition toward precious metals and fiscal safe-havens, while preparing for oil market volatility driven by persistent Middle Eastern supply tensions.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Monitor structural fiscal deficits over short-term inflation noise: Focus strat…
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Sentiment Trader | Jay Kaeppel | Beware Election Years
14 augustus 2026 · 25 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Maintain Structural Bullish Equity Stance: Continue holding macro equity index exposure driven by overall trend-following signals while managing risk dynamically [01:40].
* Capitalize on Insider Buying Sectors: Prioritize allocation to healthcare [04:03] and technology [05:08] sectors due to significant insider accumulation signals over recent months [04:48, 05:40].
* Execute Mean-Reversion Metal Trades: Maintain long positions in gold based on recent sentiment buy signals, and prepare to overweight gold mining equities for multi-year mean reversion [09:41, 11:13].
* Divest Long-Term Treasuries: Maintain zero long-term Treasury bond allocation for structural investment accounts due to a multi-decade rising interest rate cycle [12:49, 13:42].
* Prepare Capital for Post-October 1 Bull Window: Exercise high tactical caution through late summer, then aggressively deploy equity capital entering the seasonally strong midterm election period starting October 1 [15:20, 16:25].
Executive Summary
In this strategy session, analyst Jay Kaeppel outlines market positioning rooted in objective sentiment data and trend following. Structural equity and commodity trends remain bullish, while fixed income faces long-term headwinds from an ascending interest rate cycle. High insider accumulation underscores strong opportunities in healthcare and tech indices, while precious metals present key mean-reversion upside—particularly gold miners relative to physical bullion. Tactically, leadership should anticipate seasonal equity weakness through late summer before aggressively committing capital to equities on October 1, the historical start of a highly reliable cyclical rally.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Separation of Investment vs. Trade Accounts: Mixing long-term thesis-driven growth capital with short-term tactical trades degrades decision-making discipline.
* Implement two distinct operating accounts with clear guidelines to pre…
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We Won't Get Fooled Again | Sam Kovacs
12 augustus 2026 · 38 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Capitalize on oil supply constraints: Leverage the extended geopolitical conflict restricting Middle East supply by holding assets insulated from regional disruption, such as Petrobras.
* Deploy capital into super-spec offshore drilling: Invest in providers like Aquestive/NorAm Drilling that control high-specification rigs in the Permian Basin to capture rising day rates and 12–14% dividend yields.
* Exploit regulatory mispricings in biopharma: Acquire shares of Aquestive Therapeutics following its sell-off over minor FDA packaging rejections, anticipating an 80% probability of rerating toward $6.50–$10.00.
* Implement active portfolio risk management: Cut underperforming positions rapidly and scale up winning trades where fundamental improvements outpace market price adjustments.
* Subscribe to Babylon Burns premium model: Access live portfolio tracking, real-time trade notifications, and deep-dive equity research prior to the Labor Day price increase.
2. Executive Summary
Current macroeconomic misperceptions present high-conviction entry points across global energy and mispriced equities. Geopolitical friction in the Middle East and depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserves continue to strain global energy inventories, creating structural tailwinds for offshore producers and Permian Basin infrastructure. Investors can capture asymmetric risk-reward by focusing on high-dividend energy assets and oversold healthcare equities affected by temporary regulatory hurdles. Portfolio performance hinges on aggressive position sizing, cutting losing trades early, and letting fundamental winners run. Capital should be deployed defensively while remaining agile enough to exploit the widening gap between market perception and supply-demand realities.
3. Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Geopolitical risk de-risks the bull thesis for energy: Geopolitical disruptions and low strategic inventories establish a long-term structural floor…
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Energy, Uranium, Situational Unawareness
7 augustus 2026 · 42 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Capitalize on Oil Services and Drilling Platforms: Position investments into leveraged offshore oil service companies like Transocean to take advantage of rising daily rig rates and expanding free cash flows.
* Reallocate to High-Quality Energy Engineering Giants: Invest in dominant engineering and service firms such as Schlumberger and Baker Hughes as they transition into critical infrastructure players for data centers.
* Execute Short Positions on Overvalued SMR Companies: Target small modular reactor (SMR) startups lacking products or revenue—such as Oklo and NuScale—ahead of Westinghouse’s upcoming IPO.
* Gain Exposure to Junior Uranium Miners via ETFs: Establish positions in junior uranium mining ETFs to capture upside from structural supply deficits and growing global reactor demand.
* Hedge Systemic Risk via Gold, Gold Miners, and Physical Assets: Allocate capital into gold, gold miners, and copper to hedge against rising global cost of capital and central bank fiat debasement.
Executive Summary
The global macro environment faces severe structural underinvestment across core energy and commodity markets. Oil and gas services are primed for massive cash flow expansion as global reserve life drops below five years, driving record day rates for drilling platforms and subsea infrastructure. Simultaneously, structural supply deficits in uranium will persist through 2035 due to Rosatom’s financing constraints and slow mine development timelines, favoring real producers over unproven SMR startups. With rising global bond yields and mounting financial system risks, equity valuations remain uncompensated for risk. Portfolio strategy must emphasize energy services, physical commodities, and gold over speculative tech assets.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Energy services offer greater asymmetry than raw E&P: Decades of CapEx underinvestment have created an asset shortage where service equipment can command prime pr…
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AI: The Wheels Are Coming Off
30 juli 2026 · 1 uur 8 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Identify single point of failure: OpenAI functions as the primary load-bearing foundation for the entire AI trade, accounting for $17.2 billion in Microsoft Azure spend and driving 69% of its annual growth.
* Audit hyperscaler earnings distortions: Big tech firms deploy aggressive accounting practices, including extending data center useful life from 15 to 25 years to suppress depreciation and artificially boost operating margins.
* Track corporate capital destruction: Hyperscaler capital expenditure is projected at $1 trillion annually over six years, which will reduce hyper-scaler net income by 98% by 2033 without multi-trillion dollar “killer apps.”
* Prepare for liquidity constraints: Traditional banking institutions and private lenders are pulling back capital exposure to AI infrastructure and high-leverage data center buildouts.
* Reallocate capital away from overvalued tech: Initiate short positions targeting GPU owners, specialized neoclouds, and chip suppliers, while shifting long exposure toward resource equities and emerging markets.
Executive Summary
The current artificial intelligence expansion is driven by concentrated spending, financial engineering, and aggressive accounting tactics. OpenAI serves as the primary pillar supporting the market; its loss of venture capital backing would jeopardize major tech revenue models and infrastructure valuations. Despite trillions spent on capital expansion, the industry has failed to yield commercially viable “killer applications” capable of covering hardware depreciation costs. Analysts project hyperscaler net margins could collapse as high-interest debt and infrastructure costs outpace practical yield. Institutional leaders must brace for a sharp market correction, tighten debt exposure, and shift capital into real assets.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* OpenAI is the structural pillar of the tech sector: The entire commercial AI narrative relies on OpenAI’s …
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I'm tired of it
29 juli 2026 · 12 min
I'm tired of the fakers. Lees meer
I'm tired of the posers.
I'm tired of watching people with a million followers say absolutely NOTHING and get paid handsomely for it.
Everyone's a Fed expert today. Last month everyone was a shipping expert. Before that everyone was an energy expert.
But NOBODY ever puts an actual recommendation on the board.
The difference between them and me is that I put a name, a date and a price on it and then I live with it in public. Our CoreWeave short is down roughly 35% in a month. We called SpaceX at 145 on the way down and it's near 115 now. One pick from last week's conference is already up 18%.
I always tell people: Hate me if it makes you feel better but you cannot argue with a printed price.
Liquidity is contracting. Real yields are rising.
The wheels are coming off the AI trade.
The margin of safety is zero and the market is barely down from its highs.
I just wanted to get this video out because I genuinely believe this is extremely important and worth your time.
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Crashes in Progress. Look Out Below | Gordon Johnson
28 juli 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Reevaluate valuation targets following Austin FSD launch: Officially releasing FSD put Tesla on an enforceable execution timeline, exposing the fundamental limitations of vision-only technology without LiDAR/radar.
* Monitor SpaceX merger dilution risks: The decline in SpaceX’s stock price has altered ownership ratios, increasing dilution for SpaceX shareholders from 50% to 57.8% in a potential stock-for-stock acquisition of Tesla.
* Factor FSD operational data into revenue projections: Tesla’s disclosure of 380,000 unsupervised robotaxi miles implies a total addressable market (TAM) of only $840 million—far below the $700 billion valuation implied by current market pricing.
* Prepare for significant macroeconomic liquidity contraction: Anticipate downward pressure on risk assets as $320 billion in net Treasury bond issuances absorb capital directly from banking institutions.
* Rebalance equity and fixed-income portfolios: Shift equity allocations from market-cap-weighted indices to equal-weighted options (e.g., RSP) while shortening fixed-income duration and allocating to energy and gold.
Executive Summary
Tesla and SpaceX face expanding valuation disconnects driven by strategic missteps, execution failures, and unrealistic target timelines. The public launch of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) in Austin officially established an execution benchmark that highlights the hardware limitations of a vision-only system. Furthermore, Tesla’s latest disclosures reveal an implied total addressable market for FSD and robotaxis that fails to justify its current multi-hundred-billion-dollar market capitalization. On a macro level, upcoming Treasury bill issuances threaten to drain critical market liquidity. Executive leadership should pivot portfolio strategies toward lower-risk, equal-weighted equities and cash-flow-defensive assets.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
1. Public timelines destroy conceptual valuation premiums:
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Sam Kovacs | Babylon Burns
27 juli 2026 · 51 min
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Reevaluate Oil Market Positions: Navigate near-term oil price swings caused by reserve drawdowns and geopolitical tensions by focusing on supply-side fundamentals rather than derivative trades.
* Capitalize on Energy Sector Outperformance: Shift exposure toward Atlantic Basin energy assets and oilfield services to capture structural upside driven by Permian rig additions and deferred maintenance.
* Reallocate Capital from Fixed Income to Commodities: Reassess 60/40 portfolio structures by scaling back long-duration bonds in favor of inflation-hedging real assets like gold and energy.
* Deploy Capital Into Undervalued Small-Cap Opportunities: Shift focus toward single-stock dispersion in under-covered sectors, including senior housing REITs and niche healthcare plays.
* Implement Dynamic Position Sizing Protocols: Establish phased position sizing (1% test positions, 2-3% conviction plays, and 5-6% core holdings) with strict time/event/price triggers to manage downside risk.
2. Executive Summary
Macroeconomic distortion driven by government reserve drawdowns and supply-chain disruptions in the Middle East is masking structural inflation, invalidating traditional 60/40 portfolio allocations. Fixed-income assets fail to offer adequate protection in debasement regimes, requiring a rotation into real assets like commodities, Atlantic Basin energy equities, and oilfield service providers. Elevated single-stock volatility presents strong alpha opportunities for active managers, particularly within under-researched small-cap equities, healthcare, and senior housing. Executive focus must pivot toward rigorous stock selection, disciplined risk management using tiered position sizing, and systematically cutting underperforming positions to capitalize on current market dispersion.
3. Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Energy Sector Tailwinds: Supply disruptions and reserve drawdowns create structural upside for upstream services …
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We are witnessing the unwinding of the biggest bubble in financial history
22 juli 2026 · 3 min
Every crash I lived through started the same way: Lees meer
A genuinely good idea captures the imagination, then it gets carried to an absurd extreme.
As Buffett put it, what the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.
The names change but the pattern never does. Fear and greed, over and over.
So let me take you back to the last great top, because I had a front row seat:
I started shorting tech in the fourth quarter of 1999, and I was early enough that it hurt. Then in February 2000, the manager of the single best performing growth fund on the planet announced, "If it's not tech, it's drek."
You know how it ended.
The Nasdaq lost nearly 80%. Julian Robertson closed Tiger. Fidelity's second best manager had his fund pulled. Merrill's chief strategist was shown the door.
Did all of them suddenly get stupid? No. The market lost its mind, and then it came to its senses the hard way.
I'm watching that same arrogance right now. The difference is this time is WORSE, not better.
The malinvestment in this AI buildout is at 17 TIMES compared to what we saw in dot com.
This boom is far more asset intensive, and the dollars are far larger relative to the economy.
And whenever you see hubris stacked on top of debt, you RUN, you don't walk.
That's why I think Oracle can go bankrupt. That's why I think OpenAI WILL go bankrupt.
The combination of ego and leverage never ends any other way.
The market lost its mind, and it's now starting to come to its senses.
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You Can't Own Enough Energy | Mike Rothman
21 juli 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
Strategic Actions and Decisions Lees meer
* Re-evaluating Supply Models: Financial leaders must adjust risk frameworks to account for structural supply deficits and an underinvestment-driven gap in non-OPEC supply.
* Factoring in Geopolitical Bottlenecks: Portfolio strategies must price in long-term supply losses resulting from Iran’s control over shipping lanes in the Straits of Hormuz.
* Refinement of Reserve Accounting: Strategic planning should account for impaired restoration speeds from thick, low-pressure oil column reservoirs like those in Iran, Venezuela, and Lake Maracaibo.
* Tracking Downstream Constraints: Executives must monitor global diesel crack spreads and refinery capacity losses, particularly regarding damaged Russian infrastructure, as leading indicators for product shortages.
* Capitalizing on Market Disconnects: Investment strategies should exploit the structural divergence between falling paper futures prices and historic physical inventory drawdowns.
Executive Summary
The global oil market is undergoing a fundamental structural shift driven by over a decade of upstream underinvestment and acute geopolitical supply disruptions. Contrary to consensus models projecting a global supply glut, structural deficits have led to historic inventory drawdowns of approximately one billion barrels. Physical market tightness is heavily masked by paper futures trading volumes, which distort short-term price discovery. Furthermore, persistent disruptions in the Persian Gulf and structural capacity losses in Russia, Iran, and U.S. shale indicate significant upside price risk. Energy equities remain a critical hedge, poised to outperform standard commodity pricing.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
1. Paper Market Divergence: Physical market fundamentals are currently detached from paper futures pricing.
* Practical Lesson: Do not rely solely on benchmark futures prices for supply chain budgeting; track physical inventory drawdowns and OECD stockpile trends …