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Our subscriber call today was TERRIFIC.

We talked about:

* Why rates still have room to run
* Where the real bubble in this market is hiding
* What I expect once the election is behind us
* Which scoreboard names I'd still buy today, and where I'm taking profits.
* My best advice for anyone coming off a bad year
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This panel is the AI skeptics' version of the '92 Dream Team: Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran and Nobody Special, all on one stage. This is what you'll hear:
* We run the math on how much of Big Tech’s profits this buildout could wipe out, and the number is staggering.
* We go through the leaked Anthropic filing and the numbers that never made the headlines.
* We expose the balance sheet games the biggest names in tech are now playing to keep the money flowing.
* We follow the risk all the way down to who’s really holding it, and it’s probably you.
* We cut through the “rogue AI” headlines and get to what’s actually going on.
* And you’ll hear a story about OpenAI that you won’t believe until you hear it.
We also get into what the fallout looks like from here, and where the real opportunity sits once the dust settles.
I’ve called this the biggest misallocation of capital in history, and this panel shows you exactly why.
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1. Strategic Actions and Decisions
* Assess the $15 billion physical uranium market structure: The underlying commodity market is exceptionally thin, cash-only, and lacks liquid derivatives or futures, creating structural supply vulnerabilities despite steady global reactor growth.
* Capitalize on pricing disconnects in physical contracts: Utilities are entering long-term contracts with price floors near $105/lb and caps at $130/lb, while spot prices linger around $89/lb—below greenfield mine incentive costs of $120–$130/lb.
* Prepare for supply squeezes driven by policy mandates: US legislation mandating domestic uranium purchases and banning Russian enriched imports faces physical impossibilities, as current US production is only 3 million pounds against 55 million pounds of annual consumption.
* Short speculative SMR and fusion ventures while favoring proven operators: Highly hyped SMR startups face massive safety, regulatory, and technical risks, making established defense/industrial suppliers with existing miniaturized reactor capabilities far more viable.
* Position for sum-of-the-parts revaluation in tier-one miners: Primary uranium producers present significant asymmetric upside through overlooked asset stakes, such as pending nuclear services unit IPOs, alongside long-term physical commodity holding vehicles.
Executive Summary
The global nuclear fuel supply chain faces a structural supply-demand deficit driven by low utility inventories, political restrictions on Russian imports, and lengthy mine development timelines. Despite long-term fundamentals supporting substantial price increases, physical uranium and mining equities remain artificially depressed due to high interest rates, illiquid spot markets, and transient macro sentiment. Strategic opportunities exist in physical uranium holding vehicles, established tier-one miners with hidden asset value, and military-contracted nuclear engineering providers. Conversely, early-stage fusion companies and unproven small modular reactor (SMR) startups represent significant downside risk due to unviable technology and severe safety constraints.
Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons
* Physical supply deficits will trigger a market squeeze: The exhaustion of utility buffer inventories and impending bans on Russian nuclear imports will force utility buyers into a tight market by 2028–2029.
* Build baseline allocations in physical uranium holding trusts (e.g., Sprott Uranium Trust) during periods of weakness to capture long-term supply deficit upside without operational execution risk.
* Unhedged greenfield projects face economic friction: Greenfield mining projects require selling prices of $120–$130/lb to justify production, far exceeding current spot prices.
* Avoid investing in unhedged, early-stage greenfield miners dependent on near-term spot pricing to fund capital expenditures.
* Commercial hype in nuclear technology creates short opportunities: Venture-backed SMR startups and commercial fusion firms frequently make unrealistic timeline claims while utilizing high-risk fuel and cooling configurations.
* Maintain a short bias or zero exposure toward speculative SMR/fusion pure-plays, redirecting capital toward established industrial incumbents with military track records.
* Sum-of-the-parts mispricings offer margin of safety: Market mispricings occur when major miners hold hidden or equity-accounted stakes in auxiliary nuclear infrastructure units.
* Target large-cap uranium producers where non-consolidated holdings (e.g., reactor service providers) cover a dominant portion of the enterprise valuation.
* Product tanker tightness driven by global refined fuel imbalances: Supply chain disruptions and regional refinery closures have created severe supply bottlenecks for refined products like diesel and jet fuel.
* Overweight product tanker shipping fleets and offshore oil service providers over unhedged land drillers or unprofitable renewable energy equities.

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Anthropic's own IPO filing tells you why:

The prospectus warns that its AI models could resist being shut down and could hide or manipulate information. If you run security at a big bank, that's the last thing you're letting anywhere near your customers' money.

The surveys back that up too: 69% of IT and security leaders say security worries are slowing down their AI agent rollouts, and only 1 in 5 American businesses use AI in any part of their work.

And the revenue Anthropic does have leans on a VERY short list. Nearly 25% of last year's sales came from just 2 customers, and plenty of its big customers aren't locked into long-term contracts.

Now look at the bills:

Anthropic has signed up for $518 billion of computing over the next decade, and 80% of it gets paid whether the customers show up or not. The filing says so itself: "If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference."

What could possibly go wrong?

Every dollar of that $518 billion sits in somebody else's revenue forecast. Wall Street's tech analysts have the sector's cash flow doubling to $2.4 trillion by 2028, and the analysts who cover the customers are forecasting a much smaller pile of cash to pay for it.

Wayne Gretzky's father famously taught him "to skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been." For 3 years the puck was chips and data centers, and the people selling them got rich.

Now the puck is heading to the customer, and the customer is SCARED.

At $2 trillion you're paying for NARRATIVE DOMINANCE, a story where every company on earth runs on AI. When the customers don't show up on schedule, most of that $518 billion still comes due, and whoever holds the stock eats the difference.

We skated to where this puck was going a long time ago:

In January we showed you that most CFOs couldn't point to any measurable return on their AI spending. Those CFOs sign the checks this whole thing depends on, and 8 months later their security teams are still standing in the doorway.

In May I told you SpaceX's record IPO would be forced into the index funds on its 15th trading day, and that your 401k would be the exit liquidity. On July 7 it joined the Nasdaq-100, and the funds tracking it had to buy an estimated $4.3 billion of stock.

Anthropic is next in line. AND THIS IS MUCH MORE DANGEROUS.

$2 trillion IPO, record spending, and no customers.

If they can't get money from investors it's OVER for the whole AI boom.

Own businesses whose customers are paying them today, like energy, and let somebody else pay $2 trillion for customers that haven't shown up yet.

Don't be the exit liquidity.

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