Is The Glass Half Full Or Empty For 2025 Expect Surprises A Regime Shift And Hig

Author: Jordi Visser Date: 2025-01-05 Type: transcript Evidence: 9 Themes: 9

us-dollar-fx-structural-bear

🟢 [E4985] Dollar overvalued per Big Mac purchasing power. Week-to-week strength unprecedented. Yuan at lowest since 2008. But tariffs and potential China deal could shift currency narrative. Stronger dollar headwind for Mag-7 earnings if maintained. Depreciation could come if tariffs truly implemented, pressuring rates higher.
supporting · 2025-01-05

inflationary-bust-commodity-barbell

🔴 [E4984] Inflation not coming back to 2% without fight. Real yields potentially inverting if inflation stays higher. Commodity prices likely to surprise to upside driven by power needs. Energy barbell opportunity: long oil/natural gas, short Mag-7 beneficiaries if profit margins squeezed by power costs. Tariffs create inflation risk but political limitations exist.
challenging · 2025-01-05

energy-sector-structural-positioning

🟢 [E4980] Primary surprise for 2025: power shortage from AI agents and inference demands. Energy will dominate second half of year. Natural gas 12-month contract above $4 for first time since 2014, indicating structural demand shift not weather. Nuclear new builds post-2030, so hybrid solutions needed now: natural gas, renewables, thermal. Electricity bills rising summer 2025.
supporting · 2025-01-05

tesla-robotics-autonomy

🟢 [E4986] AI agents and robotics transformation coming within 2-3 years. Tesla as NPU company for embodied AI critical. Jobs market weakness emerging (8-month rolling change at lows since 2011). Temp hiring freezing indicates early AI impact. Wage pressure from displaced workers to shift wealth perception supporting Bitcoin.
supporting · 2025-01-05

global-liquidity-cycle-macro-regime

🟢 [E4983] Sentiment historically high for stocks despite potential volatility. BuyBacks and issuance imbalance favoring markets. Capital-intensive (semis/hardware) vs non-capital-intensive (software/AI) productivity gap widening US dominance. Dollar strength year to date with only 1 down week, longest run in memory. Potential dollar pivot later depending on tariff implementation.
supporting · 2025-01-05

apple-nvidia-mag7-single-stock

🔴 [E4988] Mag-7 valuation at risk if profit margins compress from power cost inflation. Nvidia 150-day moving average critical technical level—break below signals correction. Margin expansion exhausted; earnings growth now must come from revenue growth. Dollar strength headwind for multinational earnings. Mag-7 outperformance unsustainable if other costs rise.
challenging · 2025-01-05

bitcoin-cycle-bear-phase

🟢 [E4987] Bitcoin purest AI trade, best performing asset prediction for 2025. Corporate balance sheet accumulation accelerating with 80+ companies adding Bitcoin. Stable coin usage surging to 8.5T transaction volumes. Michael Sailor strategy becoming corporate norm. Bitcoin should outperform Mag-7 if Fed torn between inflation and growth.
supporting · 2025-01-05

macro-cycle-frameworks

🟢 [E4982] KKR outlook glass half full: regime shift underway. Fed budget deficit minus unemployment still very high, fiscal dominance continues. Asynchronous business cycles globally prevent synchronized recession. Government spending on AI replacing business cycles. Next 2 years: each month equals 1 year innovation from AI agents. Momentum likely to peak during year with 10-15% correction possible.
supporting · 2025-01-05

ai-capex-infrastructure-bottleneck

🟢 [E4981] AI capex cycle transitioning from LLM training to inference and embodied agents. Robotics buildout requires hardware not just code. 10 billion robots planned by Musk. Data centers being built across multiple companies (Meta 65B, Stargate 500B+). Hardware buildout in physical economy breaking 4-year software dominance narrative.
supporting · 2025-01-05