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The Monumental Mistake Of Raising Rates in September

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@RZitelmann Zu Mileis Ehren heute veröffentlicht: https://t.co/06oP6pEXEO

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@apollo_news_de Wie anglophob

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@Techaktien1 Heute dazu ein Milei-Bull-Essay veröffentlicht https://t.co/06oP6pEXEO

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Jobs Report Week | Timeline

The calendar this week builds toward the August employment report, the week’s main market event.

• Tue, Sep 1: ISM Manufacturing PMI and JOLTS job openings
• Wed, Sep 2: ADP employment report and Fed Beige Book
• Thu, Sep 3: ISM Services PMI
• Fri, Sep 4: Nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate and average hourly earnings

For clarity, CPI is due September 11, and the next FOMC meeting is scheduled for September 15–16.

Friday matters because it is the last major labor-market release before the meeting. After a slightly hawkish Jackson Hole message from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, fed-funds futures were pricing roughly 55–60% odds of a September hike, up from about 35–40% beforehand. A strong payrolls report could reinforce that repricing; a weak report could give policymakers arguing against a hike more support. CPI on September 11 will remain another critical input before the decision.

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@NotA_Bull Chasing hype

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¡Viva la libertad, carajo! Hope you like it @JMilei

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@MDividende12 Ja. 600€ für Essen und Weinbegleitung. Kurzum: ein gutes Steak hätte mich glücklicher gemacht.

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Everyone’s watching AI data centers for nuclear demand. Two announcements in the last five months show the story is broader — space and shipping are exploring nuclear power too.

NASA and the Department of Energy are targeting a lunar fission power system by 2030. Separately, a nuclear-electric propulsion concept was announced in March for a Mars mission targeting December 2028, running on HALEU fuel — it would be the first planned interplanetary mission using nuclear-electric propulsion specifically, not the first nuclear-powered spacecraft overall (earlier deep-space missions ran on radioisotope generators, not reactors). NASA’s own program lead has talked about scaling toward hundreds-of-kilowatt to megawatt-class reactors “in the 2030s.” Centrus ($LEU) runs the only NRC-licensed US HALEU enrichment facility, and carries a $4.5B total backlog spanning both LEU and HALEU work — a second, government-funded demand line with nothing to do with data centers.

Five days ago, the US Maritime Administration signed a non-exclusive cooperation framework with Core Power to develop the regulatory and industrial pathway toward US-flagged nuclear merchant ships — not a construction contract or funding commitment, but a real first step, with first construction targeted from 2028 and explicit framing around competing with China’s shipbuilding dominance. The engineering pedigree for this exists already: BWXT ($BWXT) has been the lead manufacturer of US Navy reactor components since the USS Nautilus in 1954, with $2.6B+ in recent submarine and carrier contracts. Worth being precise: naval military reactors run on highly enriched uranium, a different tier than civilian fuel, so BWXT’s edge here is decades of reactor engineering and manufacturing experience, not a direct fuel-supply overlap with a future civilian design.

Here’s the distinction that actually matters for the investment case: neither of these programs moves the uranium ore market on its own. A single 20kWe space reactor or one demonstration ship needs a trivial amount of fuel next to a commercial power reactor. The near-term chokepoint these programs actually run into is licensing, HALEU enrichment capacity, fuel fabrication, and reactor engineering capacity — which is exactly Centrus and BWXT’s lane. Cameco ($CCJ) and NexGen Energy ($NXE) sit one layer further back, on raw uranium supply — genuinely relevant to the broader nuclear buildout story, including NexGen’s Rook I construction (underway since summer 2026, company-projected at up to 20% of global primary supply at full capacity), but their connection to these two specific announcements is longer-horizon, not immediate.

None of this replaces the AI data center demand story. It adds two more customers to a fuel-cycle and engineering chokepoint that was already tight before either announcement.

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@MichaelAArouet And that is exactly the problem and the greatest challenge of our time.

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Physical AI does not scale like software.

Humanoids hit hardware first: precision reducers, actuator modules, heavy rare earths, and force/torque sensors. Each layer is its own bottleneck.

New deep dive on the four layers of the physical AI stack. 👇

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Nuclear Power Is Moving Beyond Earth

NASA is accelerating a project that could fundamentally change the economics of deep-space missions.

Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom is targeting a 2028 launch and is designed to demonstrate a nuclear electric propulsion system for a Mars mission.

The architecture is fundamentally different from conventional chemical propulsion:

Nuclear reactor → electricity → electric propulsion → vastly higher propellant efficiency

But the bigger story is what comes next.

NASA is also studying nuclear thermal propulsion and future integrated propulsion architectures for human Mars missions.

Why does this matter?

Because once nuclear power becomes viable in space, the opportunity extends far beyond propulsion:

Nuclear power → propulsion → Moon infrastructure → Mars infrastructure → permanent off-Earth energy systems

Solar power becomes increasingly constrained as missions move farther from the Sun or require continuous power through long nights.

Nuclear does not have that problem.

This could create a new intersection between two enormous infrastructure themes:

Nuclear Energy × Space Economy

The companies that matter may therefore not be the obvious space names alone. The value chain potentially extends into reactors, nuclear fuel, power conversion, propulsion, thermal systems and space-qualified components.

Bullish sectors: Space infrastructure, nuclear technology, advanced reactors, nuclear fuel, power systems and aerospace components.

Particularly relevant: $BWXT, $LEU, $CCJ, $NXE.

The most important shift is conceptual:

Nuclear power is no longer only about supplying energy on Earth. It could become the power infrastructure of the space economy.

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@babyfolio I’m ready to ride $IREN to zero 😅

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