Stagflation Risk Portfolio Strategy: Defensive Positioning with Optionality
The latest PCE data points to an uncomfortable combination:
The latest PCE data points to an uncomfortable combination:
It is the foundation of the global financial system — the benchmark for interest rates, a core reserve asset, major collateral in the repo market, and a key input into the valuation of equities, credit, real estate, and infrastructure.
Because stopping AI CapEx can be more dangerous for a Big Tech company than continuing it, even when the near-term ROI is uncertain.
The central risk in the current AI infrastructure boom is not necessarily illegal behavior or direct executive embezzlement.
AI Infrastructure, Financing, Monetization and the Risk of Overinvestment
Will the future economic value created by AI justify the amount of capital invested today?
Can the economic value created by AI eventually cover the capital invested today and the cost of financing that investment?
Can AI increase US economic productivity fast enough to offset rising debt costs?
How five weighted components combine into a single 0-100 bubble risk read, and what each one is actually measuring.
Yield momentum, term premium, and why 30-year Treasuries tend to move first when AI capex accelerates.
When capital markets, AI CapEx, and AI revenue start reinforcing each other, growth and risk become hard to tell apart.
Can AI generate enough economic value, fast enough, to justify the amount of capital being committed today?