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Key Insights on Investing

Investment matching is crucial - if she's at level 3 and you're acting like level 9, you look anxious and needy

  • FM Investments grew from $0 to $10 billion in assets under management in just over five years by focusing on simple, low-cost Treasury and bond ETFs.
  • FM Investments built an anti-hallucination large language model trained on 1,784 documents to simulate Fed candidate Kevin Warsh's policy positions.
  • Profitability in AI comes from accurately predicting demand rather than underinvesting, with inference margins exceeding 50%
  • The Louisiana Purchase, bought for $340 million in today's money, is now worth at least $60 trillionβ€”a 17,640,000% return on investment
  • Chucky agent acts as an interactive portfolio representative for AI builders, inspired by the job interview scene from Good Will Hunting
  • "First 10 respondents were all no" when asked if they have 25% of crypto portfolio in DeFi after recent hacks
  • Technology earnings up 18% but stocks down 12%, representing 25% multiple compression as AI investments shift companies from asset-light to asset-heavy models

Episodes

How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute

Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute

Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back

Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back

Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis

How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis

BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

What's Actually Going On With Private Credit

What's Actually Going On With Private Credit

Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence

Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence

James Bosworth on the "Orange Wave" Happening Across Latin America

James Bosworth on the "Orange Wave" Happening Across Latin America

Daniel Yergin Sees a 'Different World' Emerging After the Hormuz Crisis

Daniel Yergin Sees a 'Different World' Emerging After the Hormuz Crisis

Planet Money Turned Everyday Annoyances Into an Economics Book

Planet Money Turned Everyday Annoyances Into an Economics Book

Brad Setser on the War in Iran and the Future of the US Dollar

Brad Setser on the War in Iran and the Future of the US Dollar

Ziad Daoud Explains How War with Iran Will Reshape the Gulf

Ziad Daoud Explains How War with Iran Will Reshape the Gulf

The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years

The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years

Thomas Peterffy on Interactive Brokers' Plan to Professionalize Prediction Markets

Thomas Peterffy on Interactive Brokers' Plan to Professionalize Prediction Markets

Gina Raimondo on How European Industry Is Getting Crushed

Gina Raimondo on How European Industry Is Getting Crushed

Scott Bok Explains What Investment Bankers Actually Do All Day

Scott Bok Explains What Investment Bankers Actually Do All Day

The Petrochemicals Shock That's Already Rippling Through Plastics

The Petrochemicals Shock That's Already Rippling Through Plastics

What the Iran War Means for Dubai's Luxury Boom

What the Iran War Means for Dubai's Luxury Boom

Here's Why The Iran War Is Prompting A Safe Haven Rethink

Here's Why The Iran War Is Prompting A Safe Haven Rethink

How War in Iran Will Squeeze America's Farmers Even Further

How War in Iran Will Squeeze America's Farmers Even Further

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Tokenization and Prediction Markets for Everything

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Tokenization and Prediction Markets for Everything

How the Speed of a Trade Got Down to Nearly the Speed of Light

How the Speed of a Trade Got Down to Nearly the Speed of Light

James van Geelen on His Viral AI Doom Scenario

James van Geelen on His Viral AI Doom Scenario

A16Z's David George on How Private and Public Markets Fused Into One

A16Z's David George on How Private and Public Markets Fused Into One

Jared Sleeper on Which Software Companies Will Survive the "SaaSpocalypse"

Jared Sleeper on Which Software Companies Will Survive the "SaaSpocalypse"

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