For eight months the same argument has circulated: hyperscalers fund AI labs, labs buy chips, chip revenue validates the hyperscalers. The loop is real. It is also thin — $46bn of equity cash against $879bn of purchase commitments, on the circulating chart’s own legend. The binding constraint sits where nobody is drawing arrows: roughly $2.6tn of arm’s-length obligations owed to landlords, utilities and builders, non-cancellable, with an accounting recognition that lands from 2027. The loop is not the risk. The lease is.
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MIB Weekly: Stagflation Confirmed, AI Capex Accelerating, Summit Resolved Nothing — Own Energy & AI Infrastructure, Sell Rate-Sensitive Duration Through the Fall Diplomatic Window
WTI crude surged +11.52% to $105.48 as US-Iran ceasefire talks collapsed — “garbage” per Trump Tuesday — while CPI 3.8% and PPI 6.0% pushed rate-hike odds from under 3% to over 50% in 72 hours and the 10Y to a one-year high of 4.601%. Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Fed Chair inheriting this stagflation stack. The Trump-Xi summit briefly drove records (S&P 7,500, Dow 50,000 Thursday) before crashing Friday on zero binding deals — tariffs, chips, and Taiwan all unresolved.
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ECONOMY: U.S 1Q2026 Report
The Q1 2026 GDP advance estimate prints at 2.0% on three non-repeatable tailwinds — a federal payroll rebound, a tariff-driven inventory surge, and an AI capex pulse accounting for up to 79% of the print on a gross basis. Strip those out and the underlying pace is closer to the high-1s. Core PCE jumped 160 basis points in a single quarter to 4.3%. The Fed cannot cut into 4% inflation and cannot hike into a slowing consumer. The policy trap is set.
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