AI won't replace the entire profession, but it's replacing the bottom 20-80% in {translation, design, coding, content, marketing,sales,design, operation, account, law}
Small teams like mine beat big corporations
because AI brings huge leverage for A players
Real examples of AI:
The speech was a nothing burger overall, but here are the key take-aways
- Border National Emergency/“Stay in Mexico” (potentially removing millions from the labor force)
- Defeat inflation/national energy emergency (lower energy prices via drilling, curb spending)
- Filling petroleum reserve (oil demand up at opportune timings - should floor prices)
- End green new deal and EV mandate (serious for Tesla potentially)
- Creation of an External Revenue Service, which probably means that they will still have an aim to increase income from tariffs - but very few details still if any
- Loads of BIG rhetoric on Panama, Mexican Gulf etc.
Nothing of the above was NEW, but the lack of focus on Crypto is a BIG surprise in many ways and we see the response in that market. Overall, this allows risk assets to thrive until we see some executive orders, which could (or will) happen already later today
Stock markets around the world are crashing right now, but why?
The answer to this question is the Yen carry trade, a term you'll probably hear many times this week.
So what exactly is the Yen carry trade and why did it cause a market downturn?
A thread to explain:
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Masayoshi Son does the craziest investment swings:
▫️In mid-90s: invested $1.7B into 100+ internet firms (including a ~30% stake in Yahoo! for $100m)
▫️In 2000: was worth $78B at peak Dotcom and was the richest person in the world for 3 days (ahead of Gates)
▫️The bubble burst and he lost 99% of wealth
▫️In 2000, puts $20m into Alibaba for a 34% stake (sold out almost entirely by 2023 and made ~$72B)
▫️Lost $14B on WeWork
▫️Once owned ~5% of Nvidia but sold it all for $3.6B in 2019 (that stake would now be worth $90B)
▫️In 2016, Softbank bought Arm Holdings for $32B (still owns 90% and the stake is $114B, a gain of $82B)
Based on his ownership in Softbank and other investment vehicles, his personal wealth is currently ~$15B.
A CFA is the most prestigious degree you can earn as a professional investor:
• It costs around $4,000
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Today I am sharing a 12-Page Cheat Sheet which is handy for every investor 👇
Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius:
"We have further reduced our 12-month US recession probability back to 15%, from 20%" in July
"This change reflects continued encouraging inflation news, a favorable real income outlook, and the decline in the jobs-workers gap."
Pandemic boom and bust: A compilation of companies
Disclaimer: Not saying that these are bad companies, but I just think that its quite interesting to see the huge run up and down.
1. Zoom $ZM
Market capitalization: $21 billion today vs $168 billion at the peak.