Edward Dowd thinks the AI bubble isn't about to burst. He thinks it already started, and most people are watching the wrong indicators.
We recorded the evening NVIDIA reported earnings. He'd already moved on to what comes after.
Ed ran money on Wall Street at BlackRock. His argument is mechanical, not emotional:
"Because we've delayed the reckoning, there's that much more leverage in the system. The unwind will be faster than it was in the dot-com bubble."
Every crisis we postponed added leverage. Now it all unwinds at once, and faster than 2000.
We cover:
- The three cracks he's watching: the semiconductor sell-off, the slowdown in AI adoption, and credit markets showing stress for the first time
- Why OpenAI and Anthropic's valuations need to keep rising just to keep financing themselves
- Why the power grid, not capital, may be the real ceiling on the AI build-out
- Why he says the average American is already in a recession that just hasn't been declared
- What he'd actually own right now
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Timestamps:
00:40 - Why The Bubble Is Already Bursting
03:09 - Bitcoin's Next Move
05:49 - When Policy Hits Crypto
09:09 - The Oil Signal Nobody's Watching
11:53 - The Reckoning We Delayed
15:05 - Cracks In Private Credit
18:04 - Echoes Of 1929
29:49 - How Empires End
31:52 - The Real Estate Time Bomb
33:09 - The Housing Domino
36:51 - China's Slow-Motion Crisis
42:49 - What He'd Own Right Now
47:25 - Where Gold Goes From Here
52:30 - Cash vs Inflation: The Real Trade-Off
56:26 - Sizing Up The Trade
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