TheStockoLator

Tech junkie. Stock junkie. Film junkie.

Strategizing out loud. Not investment or trading advice.

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@Acyn Sure, Scotty.

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The plan begins with IPO summer where the rule-bending to admit these IPOs, SpaceX, Anthropic, etc into index funds without requiring a single financial disclosure means yes, any index-holding American pays for new data center build-out without even realizing it.

The siphoning of the middle class continues a-pace.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

One of the biggest crooks on earth, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, is calling for trillions in investment in data centers and AI power grids.

He says the money should come from “Americans' savings, pensions, and insurance funds”, all to compete with China, even though the US already has 12 times as many data centers as China.

The billionaires now want to steal from Americans’ to bring about their AI mass surveillance dystopia.

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It's always important to listen to the bear case, and this is one of the most cogent bear cases I've heard regarding the future of AI.

One under-covered aspect of this is the fact that the indices (S&P500) are bending their own rules to admit these upcoming IPOs - that means nearly all Americans invested in the markets are instantly forced to participate in non-revenue-generating businesses before these these companies even issue a single financial report. Incredibly dangerous and corrupt.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Went on Bloomberg - Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t IPO. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks.
AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS/Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story.
https://t.co/ROww0H5ugs

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Some real surprises on this list...stark evidence of the bifurcated nature of these markets.

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

All these stocks hit new 52 WEEK LOWS at some point today

Chipotle Mexican Grill $CMG
Nu Holdings $NU
American Water Works $AWK
Conagra Brands $CAG
CME Group $CME
Copart $CPRT
Erie Indemnity $ERIE
GFL Environmental $GFL
Haleon $HLN
Intercontinental Exchange $ICE
Intuitive Surgical $ISRG
Lowe's $LOW
Mastercard $MA
Medtronic $MDT
National Fuel Gas $NFG
O'Reilly Automotive $ORLY
ResMed $RMD
Rollins $ROL
Service Corp $SCI
Sherwin-Williams $SHW
Sanofi $SNY
Suzano $SUZ
Molson Coors $TAP
Tradeweb Markets $TW
Waste Connections $WCN

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Yes, because during Bill Clinton's tenure as president, we ran a considerable budget surplus. Interest rates ran between 5.5-6.25% - which was the last time period where your money could actually make money, instead of losing to inflation. Most money markets paid 5% annually. Interests rates were higher but the cost of living-- and especially housing--was considerably cheaper.

The shift from company pensions to 401Ks also happened during this time, which offloaded the cost of retirement onto workers instead of corporations.

When Bush Jr. took over from Clinton, he inherited a tidy $127 billion surplus.

When he left the office, he passed on a gut-wrenching $488 billion deficit to Obama, who ballooned the debt but staved off a deeper recession. And it's been relentless fiscal irresponsibility ever since.

So today, the total U.S. national debt is higher than the country's GDP.

The national debt recently crossed the threshold of $31.27 trillion, while the U.S. annual nominal GDP sits at around $31.22 trillion.

This puts the debt-to-GDP ratio over 100, the highest it has been since the end of World War II.

So yes, things used to be different.

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@antibearthesis Classic pump n dump. You go through some of these before you learn not to be the bagholder.

Its future remains uncertain.

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Keep one eye on the $COST and $WMT sell-off. The battle royale of this bifurcated market is unfurling, as these head lower, while memory and storage continue flying high.

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@Ankara_inc 50K in my truck - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

She is the one who should walk, not run. She has a very strong chance of out-earning him, shortly, and should not tether herself to this suspicious, self-aggrandizing, self-absorbed bean-counter.

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@kejca General Motors wiped out themselves by killing their very popular electric car. When these companies refuse to innovate, it is self-sabotage.

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The Nvidia/Microsoft announcement of a locally hosted, agentic computer is roiling mega-cap tech, and yet few are even talking about it. Cloud providers are getting smashed (Google, Amazon).

There might be something to it. It might be an over-reaction. Too soon to tell. It could be a paradigm shift of great magnitude - but is this partnership the one to pull it off? That is less clear.

[TheStockoLator @Stockolator]

It's an extremely thin and bifurcated market to start this week.
#Bullish $SMH, $DRAM
#Bearish everything else

June could get tricky, with inflationary supply shocks incoming, and SpaceX siphoning liquidity and rearranging indices. Stay nimble and take trades.

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@ColeMacro Interesting read. Thanks for sharing your insights. Long $ASST and $SATA and look forward to watching this story unfold.

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@TheICHpodcast Not all leveraged ETFs are created equal, not all use the same amount of leverage or the same leveraging techniques. That's a pretty useless comment.

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@LouiseScotti @WhiteHouse His entire screed is a paean to bitterness, anger, and division. 🤣🤣🤣

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@clintoptions That's what stops are for. The downtrend was formed by a secular belief that AI agents would push software to zero. That belief structure has been vaporized.

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@BrianRoemmele My daughter is in her mid-20s and sent me pics of her and her friends playing on a rope swing over a river. Maybe you need to touch grass and stop trying to politicize everything. It makes you dull-witted and boring.

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No, don't sell anything, just own both. Easy. The more bitcoin is spread across owner bases, the better it is for bitcoin. Saylor is the pioneer and most likely to enter the S&P500 first. We should root for him. Strive learned from his mistakes and will grow its holdings quickly by streamlining the process. We should root for the upstarts, too.

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@_whitneywebb Makes sense. Creating his fascist utopia on land, where he can enjoy mobility, culture, and travel, sounds a lot more inviting than Seasteading, where he would be bored and alone and stuck with himself. LOL.

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This makes sense and is inclusive of the consistency of the participant observer effect - we all see "blue" as blue, unless some other perceptual disruption-- like color-blindness--intervenes. We don't even know that all "blue" is blue, it only reads as blue insofar as it carries consistency of pattern recognition across our species.

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@thematrixb0t The last interesting conversation Weinstein contributed to public discourse was his examination of Terrance Howard's unconventional theories. Every appearance since then has been dissembling, vagary, self-hype, and burnishing his own celebrity.

What an unfortunate waste.