Are Rates and Breadth Warning About a Bankpocalypse Crash — Transcript
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- 0:00back for another week. Um, this is a
- 0:04long one in terms of slides. So, I'm not
- 0:06going to spend a lot of time on any one
- 0:08slide. Uh, just to make sure that I can
- 0:10do this hopefully in uh, less than an
- 0:13hour. So, this is the speed round. So,
- 0:15you guys can pause here and go look at
- 0:17the agenda for the week if you would
- 0:18like. Uh, in terms of disclosures, I
- 0:21really want you to highlight on this. Um
- 0:23I appreciate all the subscribers that
- 0:25are reaching out and are thanking me for
- 0:27the educational side what they're
- 0:28learning particularly as we move into
- 0:30something critical that very few people
- 0:32understand which is personal AI agents
- 0:35from the consumer agent side it is a
- 0:37need for everyone to use them and at the
- 0:39same time the educational side on the
- 0:41crypto which is going to become as in my
- 0:43opinion the people that spend the time
- 0:45on it now today for the next two months
- 0:47are going to have a huge advantage from
- 0:49an investment standpoint over the course
- 0:50of the next year. It was a big week for
- 0:53me in terms of putting things up for the
- 0:55subscribers. This I put up 13 different
- 0:58things including three. This will be the
- 0:59third video. Uh for those of you who get
- 1:02the video, subscribers get it with no
- 1:04ads. Not that that's a reason that you
- 1:05should subscribe to it, but um doing all
- 1:08of this and kind of going through it to
- 1:10make sure that the education side is
- 1:12accelerating is because of the crypto
- 1:14launch, but also because consumer agents
- 1:16happen at the same time. So there's a
- 1:18new report up on consumer agents there
- 1:20because I believe this is as important
- 1:22as what we went through in November of
- 1:24last year with Opus 4.5 in the beginning
- 1:26of the enterprise agents from a token
- 1:28perspective. Uh bonds and breath the
- 1:33main story. I did a subscriber video
- 1:35this week. Uh if you didn't see it you
- 1:38should go to the site and pull it down.
- 1:40The slide deck is there. I do that for
- 1:42all the subscriber videos which means
- 1:44you can just go through it. I go through
- 1:45the history of bond yields. Uh this is
- 1:48being over dramatic. I'm going to go
- 1:50through the reasons why. I'm not going
- 1:52to take you on the same journey as I did
- 1:54in the subscriber one. I'm going to have
- 1:55some of the same slides, but I want to
- 1:57make sure you you you go through this.
- 1:59When you see rates moving up and you
- 2:02have breath moving down, not only does
- 2:04that make perfect sense, but it is
- 2:07insane to me that people are sitting
- 2:10there saying that this is going to be
- 2:12like the.com bubble. So, I'm going to
- 2:14take you through a the reasons why this
- 2:16is different, b what things in the
- 2:18market you can look for for what will
- 2:20warn you. Having lived and traded
- 2:22through this when I was already an
- 2:24experienced person, I was running the
- 2:25S&P options book for Morgan Stanley
- 2:27during the do-com bubble, writing an S&P
- 2:30side on it. I've been through all of
- 2:31this. This is not the same thing. First
- 2:34of all, for everyone who's too young and
- 2:36for everyone who's too stubborn, uh,
- 2:38from the great financial crisis, Lehman
- 2:41Brothers right here, to basically the
- 2:43normalization of Fed rates after COVID,
- 2:46here's what happened. We had basically a
- 2:49lost 14-year period where we had
- 2:51negative yielding bonds. Negative
- 2:53yielding bonds, something that is not
- 2:55possible. We had negative yielding
- 2:57bonds. So, this period should not count
- 2:59when you're looking at a chart. What is
- 3:01happening now? If it was this, no one
- 3:04would care. But because we're doing this
- 3:06with this, everyone freaks out, which is
- 3:08just insane to me. So they start writing
- 3:10things like, "This is going to take down
- 3:11the world. You've never seen this
- 3:13before. We have too much debt." As of
- 3:16right now, we are not even in the
- 3:18midpoint of a normal range for when
- 3:20nominal GDP is where it is today.
- 3:22Nominal GDP is about 6.5%.
- 3:25We should be probably closer to seven. I
- 3:29will start worrying about bonds at least
- 3:31from being a long-term problem if we
- 3:34start getting above seven in a major
- 3:36way. It does matter as it goes higher.
- 3:39Certain parts of the market starts to
- 3:41underperform, but those parts of the
- 3:42market have been underperforming for
- 3:44years as I'm going to highlight. This is
- 3:46why it's a different economy. So, I'm
- 3:48not going to go through every single
- 3:50thing here, but I do want you to pay
- 3:51attention to this part if no other.
- 3:54pause and go through every single thing
- 3:56or go watch the subscriber video. The
- 4:01technology sector including Alphabet,
- 4:04Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta
- 4:06and Tesla which are in different sectors
- 4:08and not in the technology. They were
- 4:11just barely above 10% and the great
- 4:14financial crisis as a waiting.
- 4:17They're now 56%.
- 4:20This is the main reason why rates don't
- 4:23matter compared to back then. So again,
- 4:26these companies did not take debt during
- 4:29that period. These companies are not
- 4:31based on it. Yes, they're taking debt
- 4:33now, but it doesn't matter as I go
- 4:35through this why it doesn't matter. Uh
- 4:37the main point is the economy has
- 4:38changed dramatically since then purely
- 4:40from that basis. And if you don't
- 4:41believe me, in 2015, so not at the great
- 4:45financial crisis for GM and the four
- 4:48main the four major homebuilders, they
- 4:51had revenues of 333 billion in 2015.
- 4:55They have 432 for a kagger of just 2.4%.
- 5:00They've been sucking wind for the last
- 5:02however many years. This is what Nvidian
- 5:04Micron had in revenues combined those
- 5:05years, 21 billion. Here's Nvidian Micron
- 5:08now 535 billion. These names deserve to
- 5:12go down when rates go higher. They need
- 5:14rates to go down. It should not be a
- 5:17surprise. These companies are, it's not
- 5:20even a comparison how small they are.
- 5:22Their market cap is is smaller than the
- 5:24revenue. There's nothing to talk about
- 5:26in this. It's a joke. When you add in
- 5:30Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft,
- 5:32that's another 2.4
- 5:34trillion, not in market cap, in
- 5:37revenues.
- 5:39Here's where they were back then. It was
- 5:41actually comparable to some degree. This
- 5:43is a completely different economy.
- 5:46Anyone that is going before 2015 and
- 5:48telling you what happened before then
- 5:50because rates went higher is comparing
- 5:52it to a time that doesn't exist. If you
- 5:54don't believe me there, here are the
- 5:55estimates
- 5:57for next year's earnings or revenues for
- 5:59Nvidia. This is where they're going to
- 6:01finish this year. So 410 to 700, let's
- 6:03just round it to 300 billion in delta.
- 6:07That's the increase that is expected and
- 6:10that is based off what Jensen Yuang
- 6:12already said. You know the number is
- 6:13going to be above it. So we're talking
- 6:16about equal to the entire revenues for
- 6:19the year for these companies for this
- 6:22year. That's how much Nvidia is going to
- 6:25increase next year. So when you're
- 6:27listening to people tell you this, I'm
- 6:29telling you this is a fact. strategists
- 6:31who called for a broadening out this
- 6:33year are not admitting that they were
- 6:35wrong and they're hoping that the market
- 6:38crashes so they can get bailed out. This
- 6:41is not a guess from me. I've seen this.
- 6:43I've jumped into X a couple times this
- 6:46week because I find it insane that
- 6:48people are not realizing that the market
- 6:51cap has changed. 78 companies make up
- 6:5456%
- 6:55of the market. And these companies are
- 6:58nonyclical. They are not hurt by rates
- 7:02moving from 5% to 5.3. There are a lot
- 7:06of old economy names, not the digital
- 7:08economy, the old economy names that are
- 7:11basically getting taken out. If you
- 7:13don't believe me, financial conditions
- 7:14is something every macro strategist
- 7:16talks about. From 1971 to 1999, this is
- 7:20the fitting of what would happen if
- 7:21rates went higher. Financial conditions
- 7:23would tighten. Here's what's happened
- 7:26since then.
- 7:28No change. It doesn't matter. This is
- 7:31from 2010 to 2026.
- 7:34You want to see it broken out? The 70s
- 7:36rates went higher. Tightening in the
- 7:38market. Rates went higher. Financial
- 7:40conditions. It's not just it's been
- 7:42going on since the launch of the
- 7:44computer. So, this is something that's
- 7:46been happening. If you want to say how
- 7:47big the number is, sometimes you just
- 7:49got to put it into perspective. Here is
- 7:51the combination of year-over-year change
- 7:53in 10ear yields plus Fed funds looking
- 7:56back over history. So, this is the
- 7:58rolling one-year change in basis points.
- 8:00Does this really look scary? When you're
- 8:02comparing this to 2022, which I will
- 8:04repeat, this did not turn into a
- 8:06recession. That should be a signal that
- 8:07you shouldn't be worried about rates
- 8:09here. Look, boom. Did we have Silicon
- 8:12Valley Bank end up in trouble here? And
- 8:13everyone likes to jump on, oh, let's add
- 8:15that to the mix. That wasn't a blip on
- 8:18anything. It didn't change economics. It
- 8:20didn't change anything. So, why is
- 8:22Breath weakening? Well, we had the yield
- 8:24curve basically flattening, which is the
- 8:27rates way of saying there's more higher
- 8:30probability of recession, but really
- 8:32this is just a representation of rates
- 8:34moving higher because this was
- 8:36unfortunately for the market a bare
- 8:38flattener. So, we had rates going up
- 8:39across the curve. They were just going
- 8:41up faster in the short end because we
- 8:42were building in more expectations of
- 8:44Fed rate hikes. Well, that changed
- 8:47dramatically this week because John
- 8:49Williams came out and basically said no
- 8:51hike in October. We got a weaker PCE and
- 8:54then we got weaker payroll data. So,
- 8:57breath at some point maybe it'll
- 9:00stabilize. I'm not saying expect Breath
- 9:02to get much better, but maybe when we
- 9:04get through earnings and companies start
- 9:06talking how they're not seeing the
- 9:07dramatic change, I think that's when
- 9:09you'll go because this is a one
- 9:10correlation move amongst it. I'll show
- 9:12that too. NDX over the S&P.
- 9:16Everyone who bail, you know, has been
- 9:18worried about the AI trade. Well, NDX
- 9:19over S&P is going higher. This is the
- 9:21relationship to the S&P. Basically,
- 9:24we've been consolidating now in the S&P
- 9:26really since June when the AI trade
- 9:28broke down and now we're rebuilding it.
- 9:30And at some point here, I would expect
- 9:32us to go higher. Here's the thing to
- 9:34watch. So, as I mentioned during my time
- 9:37during the dotcom bubble, this is what
- 9:40was going on with staples over the S&P.
- 9:43So, as you had breath going down, guess
- 9:45what was going on? People were rotating
- 9:47away from
- 9:50the stuff that was risky and they were
- 9:52moving it into the safe names. So, it
- 9:55moved in here. But that's not just it.
- 9:58Staples over the S&P remained incredibly
- 10:01strong for a long time. We are basically
- 10:04now going through where tech had a hard
- 10:06time during this period. This is all
- 10:08during the doc the the iPhone side. So
- 10:13staples over the S&P held in and
- 10:15everyone was wondering how this was
- 10:17possible. And the reason was because we
- 10:18had negative yielding debt. And so
- 10:21instead of buying bonds, you would buy
- 10:22staples or utilities. Well, now Staples
- 10:25versus S&P is making new lows.
- 10:28You don't believe me? Here's the breath
- 10:31from 20 2008 to 2023. And basically
- 10:35anytime we had a a breath selloff, which
- 10:38is the white line, you'd have staples
- 10:41falling relative or you've had staples
- 10:43rallying versus the S&P. So this is
- 10:45inverted. So again, I I I don't know how
- 10:48to say this uh enough for you guys. Uh
- 10:51when we get to a point where there's
- 10:54something to worry about with breath,
- 10:56you're going to see people rotating into
- 10:58defensives. I've shown this before. I
- 11:00showed this on a subscriber video.
- 11:02financials relative to utilities. So
- 11:04banks have been very weak. I'm going to
- 11:05go through the banks because they're
- 11:06going to have a bank apocalypse uh just
- 11:08like SAS did and I think we're in the
- 11:10early stages of something that'll be
- 11:12probably a Q1 story. Um financials
- 11:15relative to utilities when this is going
- 11:18higher this means growth is good because
- 11:20banks which are interest rate sensitive
- 11:22and certainly get hurt with credit
- 11:24problems. People rotate into utilities.
- 11:27So this is a rate situation. Now, equal
- 11:31weight tech. We keep hearing how equal
- 11:33weight's getting destroyed. No, it's
- 11:34not. Equal weight tech made a new
- 11:36all-time high today. Uh, equal weight
- 11:38tech relative to equal weight S&P, which
- 11:42has been going down. Again, these things
- 11:44are correlated. So, eventually we'll go
- 11:46higher. Tom Mlen basically going through
- 11:49the new highs, new lows. This is
- 11:51typically a bottoming sign for the
- 11:52market. So, is that the way we should
- 11:55look at it? Well, I think so because
- 11:58look who is making all the new lows. So,
- 12:00this is from the compound and friends.
- 12:03Uh, big shout out to them because I
- 12:05thought this was a great way of breaking
- 12:06it down and I listen to those guys a
- 12:08lot. Um, chartkidmatt.com.
- 12:12You can go get his charts on there. But
- 12:14basically showing that staples seeing a
- 12:17spike in new lows, utilities having a
- 12:19massive spike in new lows. Tech no spike
- 12:23in new lows. Financials news that's a
- 12:25good growth sign. Um that's how oversold
- 12:28we were. So if you take a 14-day RSI of
- 12:31breath going back to 1999, actually we
- 12:34have data back to 2004. This blue line
- 12:37here is 25. So, I wanted to go back and
- 12:40look and see, well, how do these things
- 12:43do when we hit those levels? Okay. Well,
- 12:46here's all the times that the RSI the
- 12:48day it hit or broke below 25. So, this
- 12:51date, you guys can go back and go look
- 12:53the date that we broke it. Here are the
- 12:56hit rates going forward. These are the
- 12:58returns going forward. Again, I think
- 13:01when you look at this stuff and you see
- 13:03that breath is usually a bottoming sign,
- 13:06uh, rather than something negative, and
- 13:09in particular, if you just go look kind
- 13:11of at the course of the last whatever
- 13:13years, aside from the great financial
- 13:15crisis, you're heavily skewed on the
- 13:17six-month performance to the upside. Uh,
- 13:20this is the reason why strategists are
- 13:23bearish. when you make an outlook call
- 13:25at the beginning of the year and you
- 13:26call for a broadening out trade. I've
- 13:27watched a lot of ex people be bragging
- 13:29because they were long Europe short the
- 13:32US. All of these different things. Well,
- 13:34that's completely unwind now because
- 13:35rates and oil have gone higher and the
- 13:36weak have been basically
- 13:38underperforming. But also the AI trade
- 13:40continues to defy the doubters. This red
- 13:43line here is chat GPT. This is equal
- 13:46weight S&P relative to S&P. You are
- 13:48talking to someone who believes that all
- 13:50equities are vulnerable over the course
- 13:52of the next 5 years. But first, we have
- 13:53to get rid of all of the small
- 13:55businesses that don't supply the
- 13:57infrastructure for AI. Yes, I will
- 13:59repeat it. We need to get rid of all the
- 14:01businesses. They are being replaced by
- 14:03AI native businesses, which is I why I
- 14:05reach out to you to sign up for my
- 14:07service to at a minimum get your kids to
- 14:10be using AI. I think I've had a good hit
- 14:12ratio now with college kids and my son
- 14:14in particular with using the tools that
- 14:17I'm showing and how to think about it
- 14:18because most of the video I put together
- 14:20is done with AI. So here is equal weight
- 14:23versus capweight S&P correlated to the
- 14:27ISM. So when we got this move higher, we
- 14:31were supposed to get a bounce which we
- 14:32did. Now if rates had stayed low, I
- 14:35think this trade would have continued
- 14:36for at least the rest of the year. But
- 14:38because rates in oil, and this is what
- 14:40sent it down first was oil. Then we got
- 14:42the bounce back up, but then we got the
- 14:44rate problem and the oil problem. It
- 14:46makes perfect logical sense. But those
- 14:48names don't matter to the economy.
- 14:52BKX close below the 200 day moving
- 14:55average. Um, like I said, I think
- 14:58there's a bank apocalypse that is
- 15:00starting just like I talked about a SAS
- 15:02apocalypse beginning in the third
- 15:05quarter of last year or the fourth
- 15:07quarter. By the fourth quarter, I was
- 15:08talking about the fact that the agents
- 15:10were here. Well, we have another agent
- 15:12move which is personal agents which get
- 15:13into crypto which I'll go through. But
- 15:16we had our first kind of viral thing
- 15:19that Torston Sllock sent out this week
- 15:22basically talking about how agents will
- 15:24make the logical decision to move money
- 15:26and take away the fees that are on
- 15:28yields. That is just one part of the
- 15:30agentic side. Um I believe and again I'm
- 15:34putting all of this in there that you
- 15:35will be living and I believe this is
- 15:38true and I'll be talking about Joseph
- 15:40Chalum. I'll give you guys some
- 15:41homework.
- 15:43But over the course of the last three
- 15:44weeks, I've had multiple conversations
- 15:45with people about Mastercard and Visa,
- 15:47and they are trying to defend those
- 15:49companies. I see zero chance that these
- 15:51companies are going to benefit in the
- 15:53long run. It's not that they won't
- 15:54benefit today and maybe for the next two
- 15:56years. A bank apocalypse is not about
- 15:58them going out of business, but a bank
- 16:00apocalypse is about gradually, just like
- 16:02it was with Agentic Coding. We get
- 16:05multiple compression. The software names
- 16:07are still making money. We've had a
- 16:09bounce in a lot of them. They are not
- 16:11out of the woods. I do not see them as
- 16:13being anything but on a perma bare
- 16:17market invaluation. And I think banks
- 16:20are now going to go through the same
- 16:21thing as I highlight here is what has
- 16:24happened since crypto or since uh we got
- 16:28the release of Grockbot.
- 16:30This is the my 46 token index which is
- 16:34the crypto ecosystem relative to the BKX
- 16:39going down going down bare market then
- 16:42all of a sudden we get the bounce
- 16:44instinct AI launches their beta version
- 16:46then we get Muse the crypto rails this
- 16:48is the way I go through things guys I
- 16:50bring you facts on what's happening when
- 16:52they started and try to connect them
- 16:54back two-year rates during that period
- 16:57have gone straight up normally crypto
- 16:59gets thought of in liquidity terms. I've
- 17:01debated everyone in Bitcoin about the
- 17:04debasement trade and liquidity as being
- 17:07the story. It certainly started the move
- 17:10when we got Bessant coming in in in
- 17:13August, but then we got Worsh moving
- 17:15higher. So, you've had a change, but
- 17:17here's the thing that matters. Cryptos
- 17:19held in there while rates have gone
- 17:21higher and not a little bit. We brought
- 17:23in Fed rate hikes, multiple ones. Here's
- 17:25the way gold reacted. So, gold broke
- 17:27down. If this was the basement then
- 17:30Bitcoin would have followed it. The
- 17:31crypto side would have followed it. The
- 17:32reason it's not following it is because
- 17:34we have a different stage. We have the
- 17:35agents coming.
- 17:37Clearly Bessant wants rates to go lower
- 17:40or at least to do something different.
- 17:42So I think the Zervos higher was
- 17:44absolutely uh another warning shot about
- 17:47hey we don't want rates to get higher.
- 17:48We don't know how we're going to get
- 17:49them down. We're going to do something.
- 17:51Then you get John Williams coming out.
- 17:53There's no need for urgency. Then you
- 17:55have the buyback in terms of getting the
- 17:57six billion. You get the reaction day
- 17:59one and then of course it turns the
- 18:01other direction. Um here's where we are
- 18:04for the week with all of that going on.
- 18:05The S&P continues to have a beautiful
- 18:07looking breakout chart at some point
- 18:09consolidating these gains. While the
- 18:11breath has been horrible. I showed you
- 18:12the oversold signal. The fact that the
- 18:15breath has been so weak, rates went up
- 18:18and now we've had a situation where
- 18:20we're going to have a pause on this
- 18:22stuff. So, I think at some point here
- 18:25we're going to break higher, especially
- 18:26since the NDX made new all-time highs
- 18:28today. And that chart looks very similar
- 18:30to the S&P. It just looks like it broke
- 18:31out. Equal weight uh tech, same thing.
- 18:35Here's the frustration for people. I
- 18:37hear this from many, many macro
- 18:38podcasts. They want a trend. There's no
- 18:41trend. This is copper. Obvious trade.
- 18:43Can't make any money. I already showed
- 18:44you gold. Can't make money. Everyone who
- 18:46had the anti- I want to be long crypto
- 18:49or AI trades. That's the problem, guys.
- 18:51If you've been fading crypto and saying
- 18:53I want to be long gold, I don't want to
- 18:54be long crypto. Sorry, you're losing. If
- 18:56you said, I want to be long uh
- 18:58commodities because this is the trade
- 19:01for both the debasing side, but it's
- 19:03also the trade for uh the buildout, the
- 19:06infrastructure side. That's not working.
- 19:09Nobody wants to be long the AI stuff
- 19:11because they're scared. Here's the
- 19:12dollar. Pain, pain, pain, pain. I mean,
- 19:16basically a year of pain.
- 19:18And yet, here's the AI trade. Started
- 19:21here, consolidation, everyone freaks
- 19:23out. We get situational awareness, and
- 19:25now we're just going right back to the
- 19:27same old story. Um, my constant. So,
- 19:30that was my 100name portfolio. Here is
- 19:33the 10 name concentrated one. I just
- 19:35wanted to show you guys like it worked
- 19:38almost every day, came back, and since
- 19:40then, it's gone right back up, and it's
- 19:43now up 106% for the year. State of the
- 19:46Markets from Andre Horowitz in terms of
- 19:49AI. Definitely worth the read. I'm only
- 19:51going to show you some of the slides. If
- 19:54you're long the tech earnings,
- 19:58I mean, this is pretty much what I was
- 19:59showing you guys, but like this is what
- 20:01you want to be long, not call it a
- 20:03bubble. You call it a bubble and you go,
- 20:04I've seen this before with the dot
- 20:06bubble, you're paying the price. Because
- 20:07I've been hearing that now for two
- 20:08years. I can bring up the videos that I
- 20:10was doing in 24 or 25. Yeah, 24. And
- 20:13show you guys the bubble talk. Here's
- 20:15what you're investing in if you're
- 20:16playing for anything but that. This is
- 20:18the reason Breath is so bad is because
- 20:20the earnings are just not there for home
- 20:22builders and autos and staples which are
- 20:24getting disrupted by AI especially as
- 20:27people are going to live longer. They
- 20:29have OMIC. Every single trade is a
- 20:32disruption trade. The alpha is on
- 20:33shorting the 440, not being
- 20:38ignoring the fact that they're going
- 20:39down and thinking it's going to take the
- 20:40entire economy down. um reports of
- 20:43obsolescence on chips. So, every time
- 20:45you hear someone talk about GPUs, and
- 20:47this is all through uh I guess two weeks
- 20:50ago, every single chip from Nvidia
- 20:54continues. There's supposed to be in
- 20:56decline, guys. When it once it comes
- 20:58out, it's like a car. It's supposed to
- 21:00depreciate because there's a better one
- 21:02the next day. This is what they talked
- 21:04about in terms of the opportunities
- 21:06coming up. The reason I want to show
- 21:07this, more tokens, more tokens, more
- 21:10tokens, more tokens. Every one of these
- 21:14means a lot more tokens.
- 21:17And then we get Micron this week.
- 21:20Everyone wants to fade Micron. the
- 21:22amount of crap I got when I said I
- 21:24bought started buying it back in the
- 21:26800s from people and I said I wanted to
- 21:29be involved because I thought it would
- 21:30go higher over the course of the next
- 21:32year and I was prepared to build a
- 21:34sizable position if we went back towards
- 21:36500. Uh but we never did. We just sat
- 21:40there. It's not a huge position for me.
- 21:42It's not as big as Marll or Nvidia, but
- 21:45I'm still in it and it's not as big as
- 21:47crypto. But I mean the revenue jumps
- 21:4911fold as you go through.
- 21:53We do not see line of sight when supply
- 21:56catches up with demand because the
- 21:57demand trends of larger models, growing
- 21:59context, more concurrency, greater
- 22:01agents across enterprise and consumer
- 22:04only continue to drive greater need for
- 22:05memory.
- 22:08AI is moving to the edge.
- 22:11Physical embodied AI. They're seeing
- 22:13their first deployment of physical AI
- 22:15and autonomous vehicles. Why does it
- 22:18consume so much memory? The magnitude of
- 22:21the increase, the human. These are all
- 22:23quotes from the earnings call. You're
- 22:26crazy if you don't believe that the
- 22:28compute needs are growing. Another part
- 22:30of the 100 thematic infrastructure
- 22:33portfolio is a company called Rogers in
- 22:36the chemical side. I think it's a really
- 22:38important one. They had an investor day.
- 22:41So, it wasn't earnings, it was an
- 22:42investor day, and they took their
- 22:45numbers up. This was a step up function,
- 22:47a massive move. Um, basically from $3 to
- 22:5114. So when you go through this, and I'm
- 22:54not going to read all of these because
- 22:56again, this is a long thing I've got
- 22:57here. We're getting into Reuben time
- 23:00where everything is about efficiency and
- 23:02watts, which is why Marllin,
- 23:05go look what these names did this week.
- 23:08Our internal target is higher than that
- 23:10in terms of what they're talking about
- 23:13in needs. Here is for you guys the
- 23:17because it was a step up and I love
- 23:18stepups. And then I go, well, if they're
- 23:20stepping up and they're having supply
- 23:22issues, there's tons of places to go
- 23:24look. Here you go. For those of you who
- 23:26are not subscribers, don't say I didn't
- 23:28give you anything without subscribing.
- 23:30There's a bunch of names on here that
- 23:32you guys can go look at. These are the
- 23:35names that connect back to Rogers on the
- 23:39work that I've done over the course of
- 23:40the last two years in my writings. So
- 23:43all I do for those of you who are
- 23:44subscribers whenever this happens upload
- 23:47all of my work that you have saved or
- 23:49just put it in one folder in anywhere
- 23:52have co-work go into the folder and only
- 23:55use that data and go out of the hundred
- 23:57names take what Rogers did and connect
- 23:59it back and show me what'll have an
- 24:01important side. So again the packing
- 24:03compl the power density the heat density
- 24:05we're starting to get into the point
- 24:07where heat matters. Most great
- 24:10investments begin in discomfort. This is
- 24:12when we start to segue to the consumer
- 24:13agents and into crypto. Um,
- 24:19I basically included this part. So, this
- 24:21is from Howard Marx. Um, and I wanted to
- 24:24show this just because last year when I
- 24:27was writing about inference and talking
- 24:29about Micron,
- 24:31the push back I got was again the
- 24:34discomfort people had. Part of it was
- 24:35tariffs, but part of it was believing AI
- 24:37was a bubble. So every time you say AI
- 24:39is a bubble, you've been wrong and it's
- 24:41cost you dramatically. So we have a new
- 24:44inflection point here. So tokens grew
- 24:47dramatically because of inference,
- 24:48because of memory, and now we're getting
- 24:50into consumer agents, which I'm selling
- 24:52you is more demand because we're now
- 24:54going to have 8 billion people over the
- 24:57course of the next five years using
- 24:58personal. It's going to be on your
- 25:01phone. Everyone has a phone. They're
- 25:03going to have it. Muse is free. So when
- 25:07I use Muse, the amount of tokens I'm
- 25:09using between Grock and Muse is far
- 25:11bigger than any month I've ever used. So
- 25:13if you're not using them, great. But I'm
- 25:16already causing demand issues. This is a
- 25:18paper I wrote in May 15th of 2025. The
- 25:21inference inflection, where real time AI
- 25:23meets real time opportunity. I want you
- 25:25to read this. While everyone was busy
- 25:27debating tariffs, AI inference quietly
- 25:28had its breakout moment. While markets
- 25:30fixated on trade headlines and the daily
- 25:33churn of social media noise, think rates
- 25:36and breath, a far more important macro
- 25:38trend was again meaning momentum. You
- 25:40missed AI because of this. Then in June,
- 25:45the firework shows over. One of the
- 25:47hardest things for investors to
- 25:48recognize during an exponential
- 25:49technological transition is the
- 25:51difference between new information and
- 25:52delayed understanding. The Agentic AI
- 25:55buildout has just begun. And the reason
- 25:56I want to show this, since that period,
- 25:58there's been no money to make in AI.
- 26:00Now, I'm not saying Micron's not going
- 26:02to continue to make you money, but you
- 26:04had to go through a 700 point fall, 50%
- 26:07fall in the stock, and I think it might
- 26:11go up from the peak another whatever it
- 26:13was, it was a,000 back then. So, I when
- 26:17I wrote this paper, Micron was $98. When
- 26:21I wrote this paper, it was over 1,000.
- 26:25You don't get windows to wait. So now
- 26:28I'm going to take you through the
- 26:29educational side. I have a lot of
- 26:30podcasts in here. For those of you who
- 26:32want to get smarter on the situation, go
- 26:35listen to them. Don't just take what my
- 26:37summary is in this video. Go listen.
- 26:39This young kid here is the founder of uh
- 26:43Instinct AI.
- 26:46The personal ra the founder argues we
- 26:48are entering the largest software race
- 26:49in history. Agents replace interfaces.
- 26:52Trust becomes everything. I'm going to
- 26:54emphasize trust again and again. This is
- 26:56the argument that people give for
- 26:57Mastercard and Visa. They are wrong,
- 26:59wrong, wrong. You want trust, you go to
- 27:02crypto, you go to cryptography, you go
- 27:04to instant settlement. I will show you
- 27:06why. You are wrong if you believe trust
- 27:08in the system is there. It takes time.
- 27:10And this kid explains trust, not
- 27:12intelligence, is presented as the
- 27:14biggest bottleneck. And that's because
- 27:16of stubborn thinkers. users gradually
- 27:18provide more permissions as confidence
- 27:20builds, which means as they use it, they
- 27:23get less worried about the other issues.
- 27:25This will happen with crypto as well. It
- 27:27will take time. Everything takes time.
- 27:29But when you say this is the way people
- 27:31trust, I will show you times where I've
- 27:33heard this before and it came to bite
- 27:35people big time. Attention economy
- 27:37versus the agent economy. This is
- 27:39important for people who think that Meta
- 27:41and these other places are going to win.
- 27:44I think this is going to be a feeding
- 27:45frenzy. The Mag 7 used to have their own
- 27:48lanes. Now they're going to be fighting
- 27:50with each other over the same TAM. I
- 27:52think it is very very difficult because
- 27:53it's going to depend on what you're
- 27:55comfortable with and where you spend
- 27:56your attention. And that's why the
- 27:57attention economy which is where we've
- 27:59had the Mag 7 in different verticals now
- 28:02we're going to have it harder and the
- 28:04agent economy is very very different and
- 28:06businesses must adapt. He talks about
- 28:07that product design is becoming
- 28:09psychology and that's what I mean. It's
- 28:12becoming something that is very very
- 28:14challenging uh to deal with. I'm moving
- 28:16away from being with my phone because
- 28:18Muse is sending me things during the day
- 28:20multiple multiple times. I can't even
- 28:22tell you how many things I get on Muse
- 28:24all day long. The compute problem. This
- 28:26is one of the most interesting parts.
- 28:28Exponential compute demand. User growth
- 28:30compounds daily while proactive agents
- 28:32require constant background reasoning.
- 28:34Meaning compute demand scales much
- 28:36faster than traditional applications.
- 28:38The founder explains why buying GPUs
- 28:40becomes extraordinarily difficult.
- 28:42Infrastructure lead times stretch
- 28:44months. This is the most important part
- 28:47in there. He's telling you how difficult
- 28:50the compute side is.
- 28:53They already have 1 billion annualized
- 28:55transaction volume. Think about that.
- 28:57We're at the point where commerce is
- 28:59happening. 50% of that volume is travel.
- 29:02He goes through the daily user growth.
- 29:04Look at these numbers. 10 10 to 11%.
- 29:06Again, it's early, but it's fine. 40%
- 29:09remember that trust thing. Give Instinct
- 29:11a personal credit card within 3 weeks.
- 29:1480% retention after connecting sensitive
- 29:17information. The amount of compute that
- 29:18you need access to is now doubling
- 29:21effectively
- 29:22every week.
- 29:25So,
- 29:26it's going to be an order of magnitude
- 29:28more than what we thought we needed.
- 29:31They're different than coding agents. It
- 29:33becomes a new source of compute demand.
- 29:36I'm not going to read the whole thing
- 29:37anymore, but basically, no matter how
- 29:39you take it, guys, if you haven't
- 29:41increased your memory needs, I want to
- 29:43bring you back to something that I've
- 29:45shown you that Goldman Sachs put out.
- 29:46I've shown it for months. We are in the
- 29:48first, yes, the first inning of of of
- 29:51token consumption. So, whatever silly
- 29:54things you're looking about about
- 29:55overall spend and all these things and
- 29:57going through it, you're missing it.
- 30:00Remember, and I saw this today, I didn't
- 30:02include it in the video, but the total
- 30:05revenue this year for OpenAI and
- 30:07Anthropic combined, which is going to be
- 30:09about a hundred billion dollars
- 30:11combined, not the ARR, but their actual
- 30:14revenue is going to be greater than the
- 30:16entire
- 30:18software sector.
- 30:20So again, when you go through this and
- 30:22you start thinking this money is coming
- 30:24from somewhere. So people that thought
- 30:25that the only TAM that they would get
- 30:28would be on the software side, the
- 30:31increase this year is bigger than what
- 30:32the increase is for the rest of
- 30:34software. They're taking it from other
- 30:36places for sure. Meta expands Muse to
- 30:38small businesses. OpenAI launches dots.
- 30:41So they've got their first competitor.
- 30:44Grockbot now connects to your finances,
- 30:47your bank card, investment accounts, new
- 30:49finance. Again, thank crypto. Why didn't
- 30:52Google build Muse? It is kind of amazing
- 30:55that Google has fallen so far behind in
- 30:57terms of getting stuff out. Uh this is
- 31:00just another thing that came out this
- 31:02week in terms of another product. This
- 31:04is called FO. Uh just more agents uh
- 31:07personal AI bots will blow the everyday
- 31:09tech user away in the next few months.
- 31:12In the past month, we've noticed the
- 31:13usefulness of these bots has gone off
- 31:15the charts. I completely agree. And
- 31:17that's the thing that I mentioned in
- 31:19last week's video, uh, which was how
- 31:21much things changed from the Zuckerberg
- 31:24town hall to that. So, because this is
- 31:27an important point and because I wanted
- 31:29to take it in, I did put on the website
- 31:32a 25page report. Now, this report is
- 31:35using all of the research I already did.
- 31:37It's taking the hundred names that are
- 31:39in my basket and basically going through
- 31:40and showing you like I did with Rogers,
- 31:42but now from the entire thing who
- 31:45benefits from personal assistance, edge
- 31:48AI, embodied AI in a step-up function.
- 31:51So, it's not changing the enterprise
- 31:53benefits. It's just saying how will this
- 31:55impact the other names because this will
- 31:59add to their earnings going forward. So,
- 32:02I go through the difference between the
- 32:04two of them. There's a lot of parts in
- 32:06this and because it's coming out so
- 32:08fast, I think it's important for you
- 32:09guys to go spend the time. Smartphones,
- 32:11AIPCs, wearables, smart home. We are in
- 32:14the agentic physical AI side because you
- 32:18have to remember agent swarms mean the
- 32:20technology is good enough for agents,
- 32:23which means we're getting closer to
- 32:25humanoids, to FSD, to all of that. So,
- 32:28start pushing those. Whatever you
- 32:30thought the time period was, they're
- 32:32coming faster. the two names that come
- 32:34out to give you an idea of the way this
- 32:36goes. So the direct side, the edge side,
- 32:38the cloud side, what is
- 32:41the ranking they get. So again, this is
- 32:44using um uh a new tool that I went
- 32:47through. So I'm doing this via the
- 32:50reports that I did. So the research is
- 32:52there any new stuff, but then I'm using
- 32:54Jev tool uh on this. The other thing I
- 32:57did, so this week there will be two
- 32:59weekly dashboards up for the hundred
- 33:01names. So you guys can start finding the
- 33:03names that you want to be involved in as
- 33:05the breath continues to increase and
- 33:07these names are going to many of them
- 33:09are going to go to all-time highs. Um I
- 33:11did a weekly one as well. I'm going to
- 33:13replace the one that I do each week with
- 33:15one that has weekly data as well. So as
- 33:18of now you can see for those of you who
- 33:20use it all of the stuff is the same but
- 33:22now there's weekly parts as well. I just
- 33:24want to highlight that because I know a
- 33:26lot of you have prompt set up and things
- 33:28like that. You bring it up. I take the
- 33:31the prompt that's there and explain to
- 33:34your LLM what's going on. Reach out to
- 33:37me if you have an issue, but both of
- 33:39them I'm uploading the weekly and the
- 33:41regular one. And then based on how
- 33:43people are doing with the weekly one,
- 33:45I'll just stay with the one. Um, this is
- 33:48the prompt that I'm bringing out. So, I
- 33:49put together an analyst prompt for this
- 33:52to basically help people that have just
- 33:55come on because a lot of crypto people
- 33:57have come on. You need to be on top of
- 33:59the AI side because they're connected.
- 34:00The reason I want crypto people to learn
- 34:02AI, it's going to make you smarter and
- 34:05feel more confident in crypto being in a
- 34:07bull market. Most crypto people have
- 34:08been involved have seen this before
- 34:10where they get a head fake and it goes
- 34:12right back to lows. I've heard this
- 34:13repeatedly. And for people who have a
- 34:14lot of money already in crypto that
- 34:16don't want to get involved, I understand
- 34:18if you already have money there, but
- 34:19start paying attention to not only the
- 34:21list of the names, but also the
- 34:23technical side of AI. It will match up
- 34:25and they're moving. Here's the breath
- 34:27number, the most recent one. So, the
- 34:2920-day, we've jumped up to 74.
- 34:32You can see it's the highest number
- 34:34since the peak. The 50-day is up at 69.
- 34:38Again, the highest number since the
- 34:40peak. You've now got a turn up, a
- 34:43decisive turn up in the above the 200
- 34:46day moving average. And the 50-day slope
- 34:48just jumped by seven points. So, we have
- 34:52now a good scenario. and the average to
- 34:55range V has continued to collapse. So we
- 34:59are 20% that's the average from the 52-
- 35:02week high. We still have 20% of room.
- 35:04This number to me is going to continue
- 35:05to fall like I've been talking about. Go
- 35:07through the list if you haven't used Jev
- 35:10yet. Absolutely use it. Absolutely load
- 35:12it up. Has been a magical thing for me.
- 35:15I'm not going to show you the output and
- 35:17what it is, but basically what I'm using
- 35:20Jev for is exactly it does a scoring
- 35:22system. It goes through everything. It
- 35:24is a It puts into the entire context
- 35:27into play. So, if you haven't spent time
- 35:30looking at it, I highly recommend
- 35:31figuring out how to get it connected to
- 35:33either Claude or Astra. You can do it.
- 35:36It's through an MCP. If you haven't done
- 35:38it yet, I highly recommend this is the
- 35:40analysis that it goes. So, use the Jev
- 35:42portfolio tool again and make sure this
- 35:44is incorporated into the analysis. So,
- 35:46this is with the Aentic consumer
- 35:48inflection report going through and
- 35:50giving me probabilities. the agentic
- 35:52regime strengthening 100% probability
- 35:55based on everything that it's seeing in
- 35:57terms of the data. So, and the biggest
- 36:00change it said was Qualcomm. So, that
- 36:02report uses Jev in there. For those of
- 36:05you have not had your kids on this video
- 36:07and have not subscribed and then got
- 36:09your kids subscribed, this is my son
- 36:12texting me this week when I asked when
- 36:14we started talking. We check in about
- 36:16what he's doing in AI and I was asking
- 36:17him how his internship or his co-op is
- 36:20doing. Um, I have literally enjoyed
- 36:23working here so much. I'm telling you,
- 36:25as someone who lives in Williamsburg
- 36:26with a bunch of people around the age of
- 36:28my son, so my son is 21, uh, he would be
- 36:31a junior in college, but he's doing this
- 36:33internship. The amount of people in
- 36:35their 20s who say I have literally
- 36:37enjoyed working here so much is close to
- 36:38zero. It is literally adapt or die,
- 36:42though. Whenever I have meetings and
- 36:43they are walking through a process, I'm
- 36:45always like, why on earth is this not
- 36:47already automated? That's why he's
- 36:49having a great time because he knows how
- 36:51to use AI. This is amazing. And the most
- 36:55proud moment I was is when I asked him,
- 36:58"Have you used Jev Tool yet?" He said,
- 37:00"Yeah." I said, "How could you have used
- 37:02it so far? It only came out a month
- 37:04ago." And he said, "I stay on the X all
- 37:06day long looking for the newest features
- 37:09that I can upload." Because he's already
- 37:11AI native. College has become less
- 37:14needed for him. He could already work
- 37:17and be doing phenomenal because he's
- 37:19able to do things that 99.9% of the
- 37:22people on the planet can't do. He's a
- 37:24finance major. He only had a Python boot
- 37:28camp which was like a oneweek thing that
- 37:30I gave him. Get your kids going. Have
- 37:32them watch this. It will inspire them.
- 37:34Trust me, I have a lot of them reaching
- 37:36out to me. Um,
- 37:38I want to bring up this guy. I spoke to
- 37:40Ilia
- 37:42uh Pulukin
- 37:44uh this week. amazing story. He was one
- 37:47of the Transformer 8, which is one of
- 37:49the eight co-authors on the Transformer
- 37:51paper that Google put out that allowed
- 37:54for Gen AI the way we see it today. So,
- 37:57I spoke to him because he's with this
- 37:59protocol near he's the founder. Um, very
- 38:02interesting story. I talked a good deal
- 38:05about it with Pomp. Uh,
- 38:08very impressed with the kid. He's a
- 38:10young guy, but obviously very smart.
- 38:12He's not as young as he was in the
- 38:13Transformer side, but NEAR is one of the
- 38:15tokens that I've mentioned. Uh, one of
- 38:17the ones I've invested in personally,
- 38:19but this episode with no priors is
- 38:21really what I wanted to mention as a
- 38:23segue here. This is important for you if
- 38:25you're a mutual fund, if you're a hedge
- 38:27fund, any asset manager. If you go
- 38:30listen to this episode, the reason it's
- 38:31important is because this was in 2023. I
- 38:35think it was May of 2023. No priors is a
- 38:38very good uh technology
- 38:42podcast and they talked to him. So
- 38:44here's someone who
- 38:47this is in the peak of now people being
- 38:49hired. I mean this guy worked on the
- 38:51transformer paper. He obviously could go
- 38:54to any one of the labs and yet he was
- 38:57working on Near and his story on what it
- 39:00is is amazing. So Near was set up and
- 39:03this is again 2023 this interview
- 39:06believing that the blockchain was an
- 39:08operating system for AI agents. He talks
- 39:11about all of this agentic side back in
- 39:132023. Again, ChachiBT had just been
- 39:15launched 6 months earlier. to listen to
- 39:18visionaries who have an AI background
- 39:21talk about how the blockchain is
- 39:23necessary and why he personally decided
- 39:27this was the best path for him to go to
- 39:29where he had left Google to do a coding
- 39:32agent company like open ai openai and
- 39:36anthropic you have to go listen to it if
- 39:38you're curious and want to learn Ily is
- 39:41the guy to go listen to from that this
- 39:43is the way it is if AI agents are
- 39:44equipped with a blockchain account they
- 39:46will become an economic agent that is
- 39:48able to pay other people as other people
- 39:51AIs do. He talked about this whole thing
- 39:53and it was his reason with his AI
- 39:56company that he decided this was a thing
- 39:58because he couldn't make payments to
- 39:59people around the world and the tested
- 40:02the blockchain and it wasn't ready. So
- 40:04he decided to go out and build an L1
- 40:08basically the infrastructure the
- 40:09internet necessary for the payment side
- 40:11to be ready for AI agents. It's a great
- 40:13story. It's worth listening to. He did a
- 40:16more recent one which was uh two weeks.
- 40:18Oh no, this was uh almost last week. I
- 40:21listened to him again and again again. I
- 40:22spoke to him this week uh on a call
- 40:24because I had spoken about them and it's
- 40:26very weird that the founders of
- 40:28companies will sit on the phone with
- 40:29you. That doesn't happen in public
- 40:31companies. But in private companies
- 40:32where they are just growing, this is the
- 40:35Peter Lynch thing. You get to talk to
- 40:37these people and find them before
- 40:38everyone else does. this John Gillan
- 40:41article uh interview with Tom Lee I'm
- 40:43going to reference again as I move
- 40:44forward
- 40:46the William Mugayar
- 40:48uh this is a podcast so I'm going to
- 40:50give you guys the subscribers all of
- 40:52these podcasts that I'm referencing the
- 40:54weekly podcast info will go out Sunday
- 40:56at 9:00 a.m. Look for it. This is the
- 41:00one to really go through. Almost all of
- 41:01them are related to crypto. But this is
- 41:03where your education begins. William is
- 41:05a brilliant guy. He was involved in
- 41:06Napster in the '9s. Then he got involved
- 41:08in Ethereum. He and I had a conversation
- 41:11as well this week. He has a new book
- 41:13coming out. He and I spoke because he
- 41:15also heard me talk about it. These
- 41:17founders and these highly, highly smart,
- 41:19experienced people want to talk. And the
- 41:22reason they want to talk is they can
- 41:24feel where we are because they've been
- 41:26building things for this moment. It
- 41:28wasn't for 2021. It wasn't for 2017. It
- 41:32was for now. So, in this uh in those two
- 41:35interviews, the reason I want to bring
- 41:36them up is it talks about Ethereum, how
- 41:39it's mispriced, how it should be thought
- 41:41of as four connected pieces. Now, this
- 41:43is Mugayar's uh side. I'm going to get
- 41:45into Tom Lee's side and another person,
- 41:48Joseph Chalum, who worked at Black
- 41:49Rockck as well, but Ethereum is
- 41:51something you need to understand.
- 41:53Ethereum is effectively the internet in
- 41:55my opinion. uh and how you value the
- 41:58internet right now is all of the apps on
- 42:00top of it. That is not the way crypto is
- 42:02going to work, but there will be some
- 42:04connection to it. So, Ethereum is
- 42:05important for everyone to go through and
- 42:07I think William does the best point
- 42:09because he's been involved in the space
- 42:11from the beginning, but he also was
- 42:13involved in peer-to-peer with Napster.
- 42:15He gets it. He was also at Ula Packard a
- 42:17long time ago. So, this is an
- 42:19experienced person, very, very bright
- 42:21and he both Ilia and him said a lot of
- 42:24things. dot con dots that connected for
- 42:27me. I don't get that too many points
- 42:28when I talked to people. So between the
- 42:30two of them, one hour I probably had
- 42:32seven things that I left with. Um this
- 42:34is just a summary of William. You guys
- 42:35can look at this on your own in terms of
- 42:37the way to value it. Joseph Chalum um he
- 42:40is now the CEO of Sharplink. He was at
- 42:42BlackRock.
- 42:44He's probably the closest person uh to
- 42:47Tradfi in terms of the finance side.
- 42:50He's the person you want to listen to
- 42:51for the agentic big bang. So, this is a
- 42:54podcast that came out this week
- 42:58and this is the bank apocalypse. We
- 43:00estimate agents will touch about 4,000
- 43:02trillion dollars of fees over the next
- 43:04decade for the financial industry.
- 43:06Ethereum is financial in in uh
- 43:08infrastructure trust commodity for the
- 43:10future financial rails. It'll be the
- 43:13settlement layer for almost all of
- 43:15finance. Why agents change finance?
- 43:17Traditional rails can't handle agents.
- 43:21Everything that he talks about in here
- 43:24is all about agents being the catalyst.
- 43:26Again, I'm not just throwing this at you
- 43:28and going through it. I'm giving you the
- 43:30people so you don't have to believe it
- 43:31from me. This is the research I do. This
- 43:33is the education you get. Ethereum is
- 43:36effectively the toll road to
- 43:37tokenization. And that's Larry Fin's
- 43:40framing. Um, again, another one that you
- 43:43guys will get on this. So, here are the
- 43:45three of them. Ether will end up being
- 43:47the trust commodity for the future
- 43:49financial rails. Ethereum security layer
- 43:51and finan finality and trust. The
- 43:54paradigm shift is about trust. You guys
- 43:57notice trust, trust, trust. I showed you
- 44:00Noah trust. Noah from Instinct AI. You
- 44:03have to understand that when you say the
- 44:05current system you can trust, you cannot
- 44:07trust it. You cannot. And I will explain
- 44:10why. So if you're older and you have
- 44:12money, you have something to lose. for
- 44:14younger people and for AI native
- 44:16businesses who depend on instant
- 44:18settlement and don't want their money
- 44:19hung up somewhere throughout the system.
- 44:22There's a corn
- 44:24car horn in the background. Sorry, you
- 44:25guys have to listen to this. Um, are we
- 44:27going to trust them if they're running
- 44:29Visa Rails and JP Morgan accounts to
- 44:31make sure that they're not going to
- 44:32drain our financial resources? I feel
- 44:33like every week now there's something
- 44:34that goes on. Last week it was my uh it
- 44:36was my uh uh Siri talking on here. So,
- 44:39sorry about the horn in the background.
- 44:41uh level of trust within financial
- 44:43systems. All right, let me go close the
- 44:45window and see if that'll help.
- 44:49Didn't need to do it. See, you guys get
- 44:50a show with Jordy. It's not just It's
- 44:52real time. It's one It's a It's a If you
- 44:54thought there was a script, there's no
- 44:55script. There's no editing. Um AI agents
- 44:57weaken the old human trust model. Need
- 45:00We need machine verile verifiable trust.
- 45:04Lee,
- 45:06AI creates a new trust problem.
- 45:08Absolutely. The old architecture of
- 45:09trust is breaking. Absolutely. ETH
- 45:12becomes the trust commodity for the new
- 45:13financial rails. This is the title of
- 45:16William Muggayar's book. I'm doing a uh
- 45:20a sentence in it in terms of the
- 45:22forward. Uh
- 45:25I believe in what he's going and this
- 45:27trust shift thing is brilliant. This is
- 45:29the part where like it was with other
- 45:32things which I'm going to highlight now.
- 45:35Remember where you were with iPhone vers
- 45:37Blackberry, wherever you were working,
- 45:39whether you didn't trust the iPhone or
- 45:42didn't want to use the iPhone, whether
- 45:44your corporation wouldn't let you go on
- 45:46the iPhone for security, and now the
- 45:48iPhone is thought of as the most secure
- 45:50place.
- 45:52This was a huge deal. So the Blackberry
- 45:56to me is Visa, Mastercard. You can sit
- 45:58there and pretend this stuff is things
- 46:01you don't understand. Go back to Howard
- 46:03Marx. Just because this brings
- 46:05discomfort for you doesn't make it the
- 46:06best investment. This needs to prove to
- 46:09be a winner. I find 0.0 chance that Visa
- 46:13and Mastercard will be the winners. Will
- 46:15they participate? Yes, just like
- 46:17Salesforce.com.
- 46:18But you have to be a growth business. AI
- 46:21native businesses and demographics are
- 46:23not going to use this. They are going to
- 46:25use cheaper things. So will big
- 46:28companies and people that have lots of
- 46:30money continue to use Visa, Mastercard?
- 46:32maybe for a while. But when you're
- 46:34investing in growth, you have to realize
- 46:36that the ecosystem is changing now. And
- 46:40that is going to be billions of
- 46:42entrepreneurs like my son, like me
- 46:44building businesses and revenue streams
- 46:46that are competing with other places.
- 46:49And everything to me is about putting it
- 46:51on the crypto rails if you use agents
- 46:54because the agents want it. There is
- 46:56absolutely no doubt. So, I've given you
- 46:57Ilia. I've given you Tom Lee. I've given
- 46:59you Joseph Chalum. I've given you now
- 47:02something you can look at and go, "Yeah,
- 47:04was I one of those guys that thought
- 47:05this would be the trusted thing? Did I
- 47:07work for a company that thought that
- 47:10it's not real?" And so, I want to give
- 47:12you part of the reason why and then give
- 47:14you something that William told me,
- 47:16which uh again, Muggy are. So, agents
- 47:19demand speed. And this is the part that
- 47:20I think people say for Master and Visa
- 47:22card, it's just not that important. No
- 47:24one needs that kind of speed, which I
- 47:25disagree with. Uh, but when you wire
- 47:29money on a Friday night
- 47:31and it doesn't get into your bank
- 47:33account until Monday
- 47:36and you might think, where's your money?
- 47:38Well, we have to go through a lot of
- 47:40different places. So, it's not only
- 47:43slow. The reason it's slow is because it
- 47:45needs to go through a bunch of checks
- 47:47and balances. Here are the hackers.
- 47:49Every time that it doesn't settle,
- 47:51there's an issue. So speed is also a
- 47:54safety feature. If you haven't factored
- 47:57it into your thinking, you must. And if
- 47:59you don't know that, here is an example.
- 48:03GameStop, remember in Jan 21, we had the
- 48:06freak out. Well, it created a lot of
- 48:08issues because of margin calls and all
- 48:11kinds of stuff. So what happened over
- 48:14the we went from T+1, T+2 to T+1. And
- 48:17William pointed that out. That was the
- 48:18trigger point. It was GameStop. It was a
- 48:20situation where too much volume happened
- 48:22in too short a period and there were all
- 48:24kinds of margin issues. I will let you
- 48:27know it took multiple years, three and a
- 48:30half years. This is the friction with
- 48:32inside the current system to make the
- 48:34change to go to T+1. But the reason it
- 48:36went to T+1 to was to reduce the risk.
- 48:39They found the faster the settlement,
- 48:42the less the risk in that situation.
- 48:44With agent swarms now, you don't want
- 48:46your money sitting out in Never
- 48:48Neverland. we want to immediately
- 48:50settle. Here we are the latest updated
- 48:53numbers so far for the month of October
- 48:55there for those of you who are looking
- 48:57at it. Um it gets reweed remember. So we
- 49:00reweed the index or I reweed the index
- 49:03September 30th. So the names got reweed.
- 49:07That's the benchmark waiting now for all
- 49:09of them. And the index level when I show
- 49:11you the charts and things that keeps
- 49:13everything constant. And then we just
- 49:14reweigh it uh just like you would with
- 49:17an index in stocks. Month to date, been
- 49:20a quiet day. Got off to a huge start on
- 49:21Friday on the payroll numbers, then
- 49:23cuffed in. Here is the breath and trend.
- 49:25If you're not involved here so far, uh
- 49:28you're missing out on a bunch of things.
- 49:31Uh again, here's the crypto rails
- 49:33relative to the banks. So if you agree
- 49:36with me that Mastercard Ves and all the
- 49:38banks are going to have their business
- 49:39disrupted not just on the payment side
- 49:40but the tokenization side as well then
- 49:43you should subscribe and go look at my
- 49:46crypto video. So I did crypto why now
- 49:48last week which went through a lot of
- 49:50the different reasons this week is on
- 49:52learning the stack making sure you start
- 49:54to learn the verticals for the next five
- 49:55weeks. I will give you two of the 10
- 49:57verticals. Think of them as themes or
- 49:59sectors. Um, I will give you the charts
- 50:01on them all and then I will give you
- 50:03prompts to do the homework along with
- 50:05the videos. The two I did this week, AI
- 50:07agents in the machine economy and stable
- 50:10coins and synthetic dollar systems. Uh,
- 50:12Peter Lynch is the inspiration for why
- 50:15I'm doing this stuff. I believe for
- 50:17everyone, especially younger people, but
- 50:19anyone who's involved in this
- 50:21personally, this is the critical time to
- 50:23be involved in something that the banks
- 50:25don't cover that has a fundamental bid
- 50:27to it that is massive. So if you believe
- 50:30everything I said to now, you have to
- 50:31know the big money has not invested
- 50:33there. And it's coming to Ethereum, it's
- 50:35coming to Salana, it's coming to
- 50:36Bitcoin, but it will also spread
- 50:38throughout the ecosystem as people as
- 50:41the fundamental people like Ilia and
- 50:43like William, they're getting calls much
- 50:45more now. I'm hearing this. I'm getting
- 50:47them more from asset managers. The FOMO
- 50:50is growing. So I'm not going to read the
- 50:52whole thing to you, but this is the
- 50:54reason why thinking of Peter Lynch at
- 50:56this point is important. Uh, this is the
- 50:59end result of a prompt that I have. You
- 51:00can see it's 13. I'm going to, again,
- 51:02this is going to go up in the subscriber
- 51:04wall. I'm not going to go through it,
- 51:05but this is meant to help you with these
- 51:06crypto names to where you can just pick
- 51:08one of the names of the 46, add this
- 51:10prompt in, run it, and it will give you
- 51:13a ton of detail on the name. The best
- 51:16place to learn about these things is on
- 51:17the internet. The banks, when they get
- 51:20involved in this, I don't know how
- 51:21they're going to learn. Maybe they'll
- 51:22subscribe to my video. Maybe they'll go
- 51:24get get on there, but they're going to
- 51:26have to hire. How many analysts do you
- 51:28have to hire to actually know what these
- 51:29tokens do? This is a huge advantage to
- 51:32use AI. So, here's the prompt. It's
- 51:35called the Peter Lynch Framework Invisor
- 51:36Labs vertical analysis prompt. You can
- 51:39read through what it's going to do, but
- 51:40this will help you learn about them.
- 51:42Take the 46 names, break them into these
- 51:4410 sectors so you can think just like
- 51:47you do in the market. I'm giving you one
- 51:50index for everyone who's saying to me
- 51:51they want 10 names or five names or
- 51:53this. No chance. Crypto is a riskier
- 51:56place. The reason ETFs are great is
- 51:59because it's got 46 names. The reason
- 52:00I'm equal weighting it and not cap
- 52:02weighting it is because to benefit from
- 52:05this, I think the equal weight is good.
- 52:07Think about what I just said. I don't
- 52:09think equal weight is good for the stock
- 52:11market because I believe we're losing
- 52:12thousands of companies including the
- 52:14public companies being disrupted like
- 52:16banks and software companies. But on
- 52:18this side, the money is going to flow
- 52:20from that space into this space because
- 52:22it's flowing into the AI native
- 52:24businesses which will use this. That's
- 52:26the way you have to think about it. When
- 52:28tokenization comes, we will go from the
- 52:30mag seven of growth to the mag billion
- 52:34of growth. We will lose many, many
- 52:37companies that will never grow again
- 52:39like Ford, like GM. That should have
- 52:40been gone a long time ago, but we've
- 52:42prevented that from happening. So again,
- 52:4413 things. you will be smarter at the
- 52:47end of this week. I guarantee you if you
- 52:49subscribe, I work very hard to provide
- 52:52you that and to use AI to help me give
- 52:54you at least something to be good to
- 52:56look at. So, he's been busy. He's a good
- 52:59guy. If you guys haven't reached out to
- 53:00him, Mark will help you out. Just reach
- 53:03out to him this week. A bare market
- 53:06within a bull market. I put this out
- 53:07this week. And again, if you didn't get
- 53:08a chance to read it, own scarcity. how
- 53:12AI and tokenization
- 53:14could reshape valuation for all
- 53:16companies. Joseph Chalum put this out
- 53:18this week. Highly recommend it.
- 53:21If you don't believe me, follow
- 53:24Wall Street.
- 53:27SEC's 5-year transition period. Will
- 53:28tokenized stocks disrupt Wall Street?
- 53:30Here are the timelines of all the things
- 53:32that happened since the Clarity Act
- 53:34failed to pass.
- 53:37[sighs] New rules
- 53:39for the custody of crypto assets. Very
- 53:42important for investment advisors. This
- 53:44is from the Federal Reserve Bank of San
- 53:46Francisco talking about the importance
- 53:48of stable coins. If you guys don't know
- 53:50what stable coins are, and I'm showing
- 53:52you that the government is telling you,
- 53:54the Fed is telling you, start learning
- 53:57now. Start understanding stable coins
- 53:59won't go mainstream on speed alone. Visa
- 54:01found US adoption intent for
- 54:03international travelers jumped from 36
- 54:05to 56 when bank level protection was
- 54:08added. Why trust is the next
- 54:09battleground again? Trust, trust, trust.
- 54:12Swift,
- 54:13you remember Swift platform transfers,
- 54:15crossber payments across the existing
- 54:18rails and digital value. Robin Hood's
- 54:21next big bet at the Hood Summit, AI bots
- 54:24that trade while you sleep. I will be
- 54:26spending more time on this. I am hopeful
- 54:29that someone on the asset management
- 54:31side who wants me to do an ETF and
- 54:34realizes I will not do an ETF. But what
- 54:36I will do, having run
- 54:39exchange traded fund business at Morgan
- 54:40Stanley, knowing program trading and
- 54:43being a derivative person, knowing how
- 54:45to execute in a basket, the Agentic side
- 54:47is the perfect way of my research being
- 54:50matched up with the names that I have.
- 54:52So whether it's a crypto place, whether
- 54:54it's a bank, whether it's Robin Hood,
- 54:56Mumu, Interactive Brokers, get your act
- 54:59straight, call up. I'm happy to go
- 55:01through this. I want my subscribers to
- 55:03be able to invest in the index and the
- 55:05names, but I want them also to be able
- 55:07to use Agentic Trading, Goldman Sachs
- 55:11going online. These are all this week,
- 55:13guys. Morgan Stanley builds crypto lab
- 55:15to test future of Wall Street. They're
- 55:17setting up a digital asset lab to test
- 55:19technologies including stable coins,
- 55:20tokenization, and decentralized finance
- 55:23applications. Does that sound like
- 55:25something that isn't going to happen, or
- 55:27is a bank worried that their growth
- 55:29might be disrupted? Bank Apocalypse.
- 55:31City expands digital assets footprint
- 55:33with Coinbase partnership. Bank
- 55:35Apocalypse. Big move. 1.83 trillion.
- 55:38Asset manager Franklin Templeton is
- 55:39turning mo tokenized money market funds
- 55:41into active crypto collateral with
- 55:42Bybit.
- 55:45TD Cowan joining.
- 55:47Uh my buddy Chris Perkins wrote this and
- 55:51for everyone who's worried about how
- 55:52quantum will hurt crypto, I already
- 55:55showed you that AI agent swarms are
- 55:57going to hurt your financial system
- 55:59wires and everything. We will have
- 56:01hackings. Pay attention to all the
- 56:02hackings, the ship hacking that happened
- 56:05in near Texas coast that we found out
- 56:07today. Everything is under attack.
- 56:10Quantum won't kill crypto, but it could
- 56:12accelerate Wall Street's adoption of
- 56:14blockchain. Brilliant piece by Chris
- 56:15Perkins. Thank you for your service, my
- 56:18friend, and thank you for doing good
- 56:19work on this. That's all I got.
- 56:22Finishing with the disclosures.
- 56:24Hopefully that was Yeah, it looks like
- 56:26it was about an hour. Sorry for the horn
- 56:28honking, but at least Siri didn't jump
- 56:29in. Thanks to all the subscribers. If
- 56:32you haven't subscribed yet on YouTube,
- 56:34please subscribe. Give it to your kids.
- 56:37Let everyone watch this. Send it around
- 56:39the world. Love you guys. See you.
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