Latest Articles that tagged "AI Infrastructure"
The Institutional Unwind

The Institutional Unwind
— Margin Notes: 2026-06-05

To understand the scale of the current crypto rout, look at the $62 billion. Bitcoin treasury firms shed $62 billion in a deepening market slide. For context, that is nearly the entire market...

The Squeeze Logic

The Squeeze Logic
— Margin Notes: 2026-06-02

A handful of detained tankers in the Strait of Hormuz started as a logistical inconvenience last week. By Tuesday, the arithmetic of global energy trade had rewritten itself....

The Independence Illusion

The Independence Illusion
— Margin Notes: 2026-06-01

Jerome Powell warns that politicizing Fed will erode its credibility. The market is currently operating under a form of selective blindness. While the outgoing Fed Chair defends the institution's...

The Truce Premium

The Truce Premium
— Margin Notes: 2026-05-29

The pipes of the energy complex cleared today as the market priced out the immediate threat of a blockade. When the US and Iran agreed to a 60-day truce renewal, the risk premium that had been...

The Hormuz Spiral

The Hormuz Spiral
— Margin Notes: 2026-05-28

A few tactical airstrikes near the Strait of Hormuz started as a localized military operation on Thursday. Within hours, they had effectively dismantled the peace narrative the market spent the last week pricing. When the US military launched strikes near Hormuz with no accord in sight, the energy complex reacted with a violent surge...

The Memory Boom

The Memory Boom
— Margin Notes: 2026-05-27

The scale of the current AI infrastructure trade is best understood through a single number: $1 trillion. It is a milestone that once felt reserved for the most established software giants or oil majors, yet Micron topped $1 trillion in market cap this session...

The Warsh Mandate

The Warsh Mandate
— Margin Notes: 2026-05-23

The institutional psychology of the US bond market is currently grappling with a directive that sounds like freedom but feels like a threat. When Kevin Warsh was sworn in as US Federal Reserve Chair, the US government provided him the explicit instruction to do his own thing. For a portfolio manager, this is a dangerous kind of autonomy...