Brains to Brawn

Brains to Brawn While hyperscalers (Amazon -AMZN, Alphabet- GOOGL, Meta – META, and Microsoft – MSFT) and NVIDIA (NVDA) continue to command headlines and trillions in market valuation, the real stock market action has shifted toward smaller companies solving critical datacenter bottlenecks. The first AI bottleneck was Nvidia chips, the brains of AI, but the […]
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Markets Are Hitting Records… But a 15% Drop Could Be Coming

Markets Are Hitting Records… But a 15% Drop Could Be Coming In this live discussion, Phil Palumbo breaks down the biggest forces driving markets right now, from geopolitical tensions and record-breaking rallies to a potential shift in Federal Reserve leadership that could trigger volatility. While many believe the worst of geopolitical risk is behind us, […]
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AI Ascendancy

AI Ascendancy From an economic perspective, the promise of artificial intelligence has been the ability to increase productivity following a decade or more of very low productivity growth. What is productivity? Productivity is critical to economic growth because it allows the economy to produce more goods and services with the same, or even less, resources. […]
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The AI Honeymoon is Over…Welcome to the AI Marriage

The AI Honeymoon is Over… Welcome to the AI Marriage It was a roller coaster week and the first market indication that the hard part of AI is beginning now. We stole our title from Open Field Capital’s most recent memo on AI, signaling that the easy money has been made, and the hard work must […]
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LLM End Game

LLM End Game In her book “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital,” economist Carlota Perez explains the life cycle of great surges of economic development, such as the Industrial Revolution; the age of Mass Production; or the Information Age (internet). Each evolves in a cycle beginning with some defining event that pushes technology onto center stage, […]
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