Fearless Financial

Sharing trade ideas and relevant data with a faith perspective. Joel 2:25.

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

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10x? 100% believe it could be in the cards.

Super cool that @DonDurrett took the time to chime in!

Let’s go!!!

[Don Durrett - goldstockdata.com @DonDurrett]

@AzMetalsInvest I like it at this valuation. It prints at a potential 10-bagger. I don't own it, but I could see it making its way to my buy list. 😉

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Looking for exit liquidity

[FinancialJuice @financialjuice]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Memory shortage to continue for several years

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Isn’t a cease fire by its very definition broken when you fire on the other side?

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

US and Iran exchange strikes in new threat to shaky ceasefire-FT

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

One to keep an eye on.

[TrendSpider @TrendSpider]

Oh my... $SOFI

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Don’t communist nations own the modes of production?

Why is a democratic government picking and choosing which companies win or loose?

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: President Trump says the Trump Administration might buy equity stakes in US AI companies and that he will host a meeting with AI executives as soon as next week, per Reuters.

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Add $CRM and $NOW and $RKT to the list of great names suffering huge draw downs.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

% Below All-Time High
Eli Lilly: 0%
S&P 500: -3%
Apple: -3%
Google: -10%
Amazon: -12%
Nvidia: -13%
Tesla: -22%
Gold: -23%
Microsoft: -24%
Meta: -26%
Palantir: -35%
Silver: -45%
Bitcoin: -53%
Ethereum: -69%
MicroStrategy: -78%
Fartcoin: -96%
Trump Coin: -98%
Melania Coin: -99%

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Agreed

[Kip Herriage @KHerriage]

VIX +39%
Buy signal

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

The banks were too big to fail…AI economy is now to big to fail.

Major bailout coming when market realizes AI will not be monetized the way they claim and drags the market down with it.

[Reuters Business @ReutersBiz]

WATCH: Donald Trump told reporters that his team might buy US stakes in artificial-intelligence companies and said he would host a meeting with AI executives as soon as next week https://t.co/leXlONTLFZ

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

I dont understand this...

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

There's more: "Meta’s Big Tech rivals such as Microsoft and Amazon are also likely to be considering their own stock sales" - FT

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Here is an idea im buying today.

[The Long Investor @TheLongInvest]

$SOFI

Cup and Handle formation to the 0.618 Fib for support

Coupled with the CEO aggressively adding

Don't overthink it

It is that easy.

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

This is the issue...if government has to take a stake it means its become "to big to fail" and that means it's going to fail.

[Sam Parikh @smartertrader]

: it trump atke ownership in ai stuff spx at 8000

means ai stuff can fail...

unlimited govt funding

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Seem's unlikely but you never know...there is tremendous pressure on Warsh to cut to service govt debt.

[FinancialJuice @financialjuice]

Trump: I would like to see lower interest rates.

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

If Hormuz doesnt open soon it will be.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

TRUMP: PEOPLE THOUGHT OIL BARREL WOULD BE MORE EXPENSIVE

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

I thought these companies were printing cash? AI spending will be their undoing.

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

META IS CONSIDERING SELLING $10’S OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN NEW SHARES TO RAISE MONEY FOLLOWING GOOGLE’S MASSIVE EQUITY RAISE PER FT

$META

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

These are not new companies and new businesses...These are folks looking for a second job to keep up.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

OUTSTANDING JOBS NUMBERS! 📈🇺🇸

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

This is the issue...the AI trade made it appear that all was well.

The average American is way under water.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Stocks are partying like it’s 1999, but Americans haven’t felt this bad in 70 years," per WSJ

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

The greatest Pumper and Chief EVER!

[TrendSpider @TrendSpider]

JUST IN: President Trump:

“Stocks should go up, not down.”

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

@joecapp1077 It is!

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

AI is a ponzi.

One little crack (no monetization, and it will come down hard)

[George Noble @gnoble79]

NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE

And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag.

This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook...

In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:

Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.

Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.

Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.

It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.

And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe.

The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what's happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.

$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.

These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.

And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.

If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.

Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.

The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels.

And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.

Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers.

In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.

In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities.

Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Corruption

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Because they know it’s a ponzi and they have to hold it up or it takes down the market when it bust! Remember “to big to fail”?

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: US officials have had talks about having government acquire shares in AI giants, per NOTUS

[Fearless Financial @AzMetalsInvest]

Yep. Ponzi

[Joseph Cappelli @joecapp1077]

@AzMetalsInvest Nvidia is buying their own chips through another company and calling it revenue! 1.9 billion worth. Every single person with a 401k will own a piece of space x with its absolute insane valuation. What’s going on in these markets is legal fraud. They are changing the rules daily.