Date: August 17th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: flesh pocket flask
the weird thing is in THIS bubble earnings are actually keeping pace with share prices, at least among F500 and Big Tech. It’s not a bunch speculation based on future earnings like the dot com bubble. They’re actually earning that money right now.
Date: August 18th, 2026 9:55 AM Author: flesh pocket flask
Valuations were absurd. Microsoft was trading at like a 140 PE ratio in 1999. It took over a decade for it to reach the same share price again after the crash.
The money that the government pushed into Project Stargate was $500BN, it was basically a form of quantitative easing. Multiply that by 15-20 and you have 7.5 TN to 10 TN added to index value…which approximates the increase we have experienced since it was announced.
4x’ing the money supply during Covid and then injecting more money is fucking crazy. That said, where do you put the money? So much currency is out there.
All this AI capex is going the direction of railway mania. AI’s a viable business and technology but I don’t know much about where it will ultimately end up - I do think that index funds and Wall Street has enabled insane excess and ultimately everyday people will foot the bill.
That said I think it’s futile to try and time a cycle or bet against this stuff. I’d settle for diversifying into hard assets as a hedge.
Date: August 17th, 2026 12:41 PM Author: flesh pocket flask
the government didn’t pay a dime for Project Stargate. Altman and Ellison just let Trump announce it and take credit for it so he wouldn’t regulate their industry (which worked). But it’s 100% privately funded.
Date: August 17th, 2026 12:48 PM Author: Richard Ames
Burry is the most overrated investor of all time. Shkreli made a great point about him a couple of years ago. Something to the effect of Burry managing like $1 billion when there are many dudes at funds like Citadel alone managing larger "sleeves" of capital who have better track records and zero fame.
Date: August 17th, 2026 12:44 PM Author: buff exhilarant cumskin nursing home
could sink at midterms or implode for some other reason, but agree that as long as there is money trying to find a home, the market overall will probably prove to be far more resilient than folks think
Date: August 17th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: Free-loading range
market already had two dips where QQQ was 7-8% off all time high, now its goin for another MOON, QQQ to 800 easily. all these retards saying BUBBLE!!! ljl u will be crying, we are going to PLUTO niggas, prob 50% QQQ gain from here, 1k easily by early next year
Date: August 17th, 2026 2:02 PM Author: dun coffee pot
need forced selling for a crash. the elites have nothing to make them pull back. any crash in AI will force others to flee to the other 480 stocks in the s&p500.
Date: August 17th, 2026 2:23 PM Author: Richard Ames
"But life is so hard for the average person in America!" - is what you hear from these people all the time. They don't seem to realize that: a.) these companies are global; and b.) they are projecting their own shit onto everyone else.
Date: August 17th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Richard Ames
It will probably cut backoffice shit by closer to 30% in the next decade IMO. So many unbelievably repetitive and rote processes that AI is basically built for.
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:07 PM Author: Richard Ames
I think Bill Gates (lmao) once said "people overestimate what can happen in a year, but underestimate what can happen in a decade." Things will look very different in the 2030s because of the AI application layer that is being built now. It is actually still in the early innings.
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:08 PM Author: Free-loading range
rofl does that maek a diff? obviously kikes are FIRST gonna use this to cut internal costs, they dont care abt consumer expreience. its like some uber faggot i think the CEO saying they dont see the costs being worth it for consumers cause they dont maek enough money in return but for cutting internal costs ie labor this shit is yuge they can just cut half marketing, finance, legal etc
if they do they even remotely well corporate profits are gonna be huge cause they can cut payroll a ton
Date: August 17th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: dun coffee pot
they realize.
they also know that companies at 30x PE valuations are hard to justify when the norm is closed to 20x and even a return to normal means a 1/3rd decline in the market.
valuations are so high because the Fed killed off cash as was a saving
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:04 PM Author: Free-loading range
plz watch gorgeous nowag TOM LEE this PE valuation shit is becoming nonsense after recent earnings killing it, u are actually gonna have a CHEAP market with lots of CHEAP stocks
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:13 PM Author: Richard Ames
I think you need to widen your time horizon. A lot of the cost cutting will come from changing how hiring is done over the medium term. That, and LLMs are the infrastructure layer on which industry and function-specific applications are being built. These apps are what will dramatically reduce the need for all sorts of "middleware" style repetitive labor.
What's more, younger people growing up with all this shit will adjust what they pursue and how they pursue it in ways that exist outside of our own paradigms.
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:15 PM Author: dun coffee pot
yes and that is why i am long the overall market, but like airplanes didnt make the airlines rich or ATMs didnt make banks so much more profitable, lets see.
Date: August 18th, 2026 10:04 AM Author: umber corn cake
> younger people growing up with all this shit will adjust what they pursue and how they pursue it in ways that exist outside of our own paradigms
younger people are all mouth breathing retards, or have you not been paying attention? They can't write, they can't spell, they can't do basic arithmetic bc tablets and now AI have and continue to cook their brains
i've got little kids and i'm watching it happen, my kids COAST at their school bc the other parents just threw tablets in front of their kids growing up and now they all have the attention span of a chicken, and this is an expensive private school, gotta figure public schools is a fucking bloodbath of retardation
my first grader has a vocab list first week of school she's expected to learn this week, and it's words she could spell first week of kindergarten like "the" and "of" and there are parents i the group chat complaining about how IMPOSSIBLE this list is
my oldest had assigned reading this summer and an essay to write on it, and a couple days before school started, school admin had to send an email out to the entire grade saying the deadline was extended by a MONTH bc basically no one had even bought the book yet and irate parents were calling to bitch about how retard timmy doesn't know how to turn a page
millennials are hands down the worst presidents ever, yeah boomers were turbo but at least they beat the shit out of their lazy kids and threw their stupid kids in a burlap sack and sank it to the bottom of the river
Date: August 18th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: Richard Ames
LMAO tyft. My number one focus when it comes to school for my kids is No Screens. And obviously no screens for the kids in the house until they are basically 18.
Though tbh I wasn't referring to like 10 years olds, I meant 18 - 25 year olds that are already adjusting. A lot of this adjusting will legitimately just be people going into non-office jobs. Younger people will increasingly not go to college (or 4 year school LMAO). I am a Big Believer that a huge number of colleges will go away over the next 10 - 20 years.
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:09 PM Author: Free-loading range
how do u measure if their earnings growth is from AI faggot? like every big comp just beat earnings, earnings growth is INSANE right now, but u cannot necessarily say its from AI but obviously there's a temporal connection, benchod bloody
Date: August 17th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: Richard Ames
When read through the lens of knowing that you don't have a storage locker or anything anywhere...that you are basically devoid of all possessions wandering the Earth just to write brutal attack poasts like this, it really brings me joy.