Memo to the Trump administration: Stop buying companies.
A government $40 trillion in debt should be SELLING assets, not buying ownership stakes in 36 companies.
We thought government control of the means of production was what we were fighting against.
BERNSTEIN: “.. we caught a lot of hate when we initiated $CRWV with a $56 price target seven months ago. Today, it’s a lot harder to find bulls — certainly some of them just don’t call us anymore.”
Reiterate Underweight
Meta reported free cash flow of -$2.1 billion in Q3, the first negative quarter since the company went public in 2012. This was driven by the massive 80% YoY increase in AI infrastructure spending (to $34.9 billion), which outpaced the $32.8 billion in operating cash flow. $META
Credit - Leads - Equities: Markets are speaking - Loan market stress is building / see CLO equity players like Oxford Lane. Ladies and gentlemen, pay attention.
“.. At the moment, we have more compute capacity than we have demand, and we have a lot of the tokens and processing power being given away in freemium solutions,” he told @CNBC. “Everyone in the AI race is running for a last-man standing position.”
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Bear Traps' Larry McDonald says SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI went from $360B to $5.1T in 3 years - and the markups are "distorting the true earnings power of the S&P"
"The market's already crashed internally.
This is a 1987 crash"
The Lehman Brothers veteran told Bloomberg's Tom Keene what he's watching in credit and the AI trade:
> The Last Saloon (0:00):
- His favorite indicator is the convertible bond market, the "last saloon." A "proliferation of serial convertible issuers" like CoreWeave means high yield "has shut these guys off."
> The 1987 Crash (3:01):
- 40-50 world-class S&P brands, like Nike and Harley-Davidson, are "all down 30 to 70%" - and "they're pinning the index." His trade: the beaten-down basket "between now and, say, June."
> The Depreciation Game (9:16):
- Chanos and Burry "are both saying the same thing": a "depreciation game" AI has gotten away with for "five or six quarters, seven quarters." Each quarter, "where's the beef?"
> The Markup Problem (11:44):
- SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI were "worth 360 billion" three years ago - now "$5.1 trillion." Those markups sit in S&P 500 earnings, "a one-time event potentially."
Every day I break down what the smart money really thinks about AI
You want to know why $NVDA trades at a decade-low forward PE multiple?
Well consider the scene: one of your largest customers is taking delivery of $3B of your product every month and can't even plug it in. As a result, it went from one of the world's largest cash cows to cash flow negative
Now play that same scene out across all of your major customers
With that in mind, can you possibly envision a scenario where $NVDA's future order book baked into sell side financial models might need to get adjusted downward?
Maybe the stock ain't as cheap as it looks at the "forward PE" charts, and maybe that's the message the market is trying to convey. Just maybe.