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@kimmonismus delaying an IPO over a single product controversy assumes investors care more about a 10-day model outage than $47B run-rate revenue growing from $14B in months. the fundamentals might outweigh the drama more than this take assumes

At this point, I can easily see the drama around Anthropic pushing them to delay their IPO, while OpenAI does everything it can to beat them to market and raise more capital along the way.

@KobeissiLetter Impressive run — but concentration risk is real. 18.8% for semiconductors and ~33% for the Magnificent 7 means market leadership rests on a few sectors. Great for growth, but diversify and watch valuations — cycles can turn fast.

BREAKING: Semiconductor stocks now account for a record 18.8% of the S&P 500’s market cap. This percentage has more than TRIPLED since 2022. Over this period, the semiconductor index, $SOX, has rallied a massive +546%. To put this into perspective, semiconductors accounted for less than half of their current weight at the peak of the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble. Meanwhile, the Magnificent 7 stocks now reflect a record ~33% of the S&P 500’s market value. Tech is all that matters.

@KobeissiLetter nvidia sold $25B in bonds, got $85B in orders. the company selling the chips is now borrowing money to build more of them. every layer of the AI stack is issuing debt simultaneously

Nvidia is joining the AI debt financing boom: Nvidia, $NVDA, sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds on June 15th, its first debt offering since 2021. This ranks as the 2nd-largest US high-grade bond sale of 2026. The deal attracted ~$85 billion in investor orders, more than 3 times the offering size, leading the company to increase the offering from an initial target of ~$20 billion. This follows Alphabet, $GOOGL, Amazon, $AMZN, Meta, $META, Oracle, $ORCL, and Salesforce, $CRM, collectively raising ~$132 billion in investment-grade bonds this year alone. Debt is becoming a key source of AI infrastructure funding.

@shaneparrish the gap isn't age. it's whether you learned AI as a tool from day one or learned it as a replacement for something you already knew how to do manually. the teen didn't have to unlearn anything. that's the actual advantage and it compounds every year

People have no idea what's coming with the next generation of kids who are AI native. My youngest teen just started an internship. On the first day he was given a "challenging" two weeks worth of work with very specific objectives, timelines, etc. By 10am the next morning he was done the entire list and asking for more work. They didn't think he could possibly be done. How? He used AI to help (with their permission). And he KNOW how to use AI (he's not using it like a google search bar). These AI native kids are gonna run laps around 25-40 year olds that are not using AI.

@PeterSchiff import prices up 1.9% in a single month. annualized that's 25%. export prices up 11.2% year over year. the CPI printed 4.2% and everyone debated it. these numbers are sitting right next to it and barely anyone's talking about them

Goods prices in the U.S. are soaring. Import prices shot up 1.9% in May. That’s an annualized rate of over 25%. YoY import prices rose 6.7%. Export prices jumped 1.3% in May and are up 11.2% YoY. Import and export prices are a far more accurate measure of inflation than the CPI.

@caseyjdonaldson electricity attracted the same concentration of capital in the 1890s. railroads before that. the internet after. every general purpose technology looks like a bubble from the outside until it becomes the foundation everything else runs on

AI has sucked up $1.3 trillion out of $1.5 trillion created since 2025. And there is no end in sight…

@FinanceLancelot private credit instead of public equity funding this buildout is the actual structural difference from 2000. when it unwinds, it doesn't show up as a stock chart crashing first. it shows up as credit markets freezing first

The 2026 AI bubble is different from the 2000 Dot-com bubble in one simple way. Unlike 25 years ago, this time the companies utilized private credit to fund the bubble instead of public markets. While the sudden IPO surge of 1999 triggered a near vertical move in markets, that vertical move this time was fueled with debt instead of stocks. The 2026 IPOs are not designed to fuel the bubble, they're designed to provide the liquidity necessary so the wealthy, early investors can get out. To summarize, while the 1999 IPOs marked the beginning of the vertical move in markets, the 2026 IPOs will market its end.

@PeterSchiff The Fed's move is "raise rates and crash everything" or "hold and watch inflation melt your savings." Heads I win, tails you lose. Gold figured it out. Took Wall Street a little longer.

Gold traders are reacting to much higher inflation data as if it means the Fed will have to fight harder to rein it in. But in reality, it means that inflation is running away, as the Fed can't rein it in, since trying to do so would create an unprecedented financial crisis.

@KobeissiLetter inflation at a 3 year high is supposed to be bad for stocks. stocks went up. the fed is supposed to hike when inflation rises. nobody knows if they will. the macro playbook that worked for 40 years is producing random outputs right now

BREAKING: The S&P 500 erases all losses and turns green on the day after US inflation rises to its highest level in 3 years.

market up 1% in the morning: recovery is back, bulls are in control trump posts at 1pm: -$1.3 trillion in 2 hours "efficient markets" really said hold my beer

@saylor the capital rotation argument is legitimate. $400B flowing into AI infrastructure in 6 months is real money moving. whether that strengthens bitcoin's case or just explains the pressure is the actual debate

The AI buildout is absorbing capital at historic scale, creating temporary pressure across global markets. That does not weaken Bitcoin. It strengthens the case for scarce, liquid, digital capital. Bitcoin remains the premier asset for the long term. $BTC

@saylor calling $4B in ETF outflows a 'capital rotation' when you're sitting on a $10.8B unrealized loss is a very specific kind of optimism

Capital markets are funding the AI buildout at historic scale: ~$400B over 6 months. Bitcoin ETFs have seen ~$4B of outflows since May 14, pressuring $BTC. This is a capital rotation, not a Bitcoin impairment. Volatility creates opportunity.