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Crypto News: BlackRock's new bitcoin income fund offers cash flow alongside BTC exposure. BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer Rick Rieder says 'I think Bitcoin is ultimately going considerably higher'. Ripple invests in Flutterwave, pushing its stablecoin and XRP Ledger into payments across Africa. Squid adds Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps.Brought to you by
Matt opens the show by examining the SpaceX IPO frenzy and the staggering scale of Elon Musk's reported trillion-dollar net worth, arguing that most people underestimate the difference between millions, billions, and trillions. He explores what that level of wealth means in terms of influence, ownership, and market power, while reflecting on why investors continue pouring capital into AI and aerospace companies.On the crypto side, the episode covers BlackRock's new Bitcoin income fund, the launch of a privacy-focused institutional DeFi yield product on Ethereum, congressional efforts to block a U.S. CBDC, and growing stablecoin adoption in countries like Nigeria. Matt also explores a larger question facing the industry: crypto's infrastructure is maturing rapidly, but when will Bitcoin, Ethereum, and blockchain technology become products that ordinary people use every day rather than assets people simply trade and hold?Happy HODLing, Everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
BlackRock launches the BITA fund. BlackRock's Bitcoin Premium Income Fund, ticker BITA, begins trading today, holding spot bitcoin and IBIT shares while selling call options to generate monthly income. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode was hosted by Uyen Truong. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.
Inside BlackRock's newest bitcoin ETF, BITA. Global Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, Robert Mitchnick breaks down the launch of the firm's newest bitcoin ETF, the Bitcoin Premium Income Fund (BITA). He tells CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie why the covered call strategy targets a high-teens income yield, which investors this product appeals to, and more. - Timecodes: 00:00 - BlackRock's BITA Opens for Trade 00:20 - Why BITA Is the Right Next Evolution for Bitcoin's Funds 01:10 - Staking vs. Covered Call Yield 01:48 - Who Is the Target Investor? 02:36 - In What Market Could BITA Outperform IBIT? - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.
Crypto News: Bitcoin price rallies and the charts look bullish with a bullish divergence setting up on the BTC weekly chart, altcoins will also follow. BlackRock to launch Bitcoin Premium Income ETF tomorrow. Brought to you by
Matt opens the show discussing the ongoing SpaceX IPO frenzy, admitting a serious case of FOMO as the stock surged from its $135 allocation price to over $200 in just a few days. He breaks down why some Daily Crypto News listeners made quick gains, why he's still skeptical of chasing it here, and whether SpaceX's growing AI ambitions could justify its massive valuation.The episode also covers Bitcoin holding around $66,000 despite renewed optimism, BlackRock's new Bitcoin Income Fund going live, Bybit launching options trading for Tether Gold, and Hyperliquid processing $1.4 billion in SpaceX-related trading volume. Matt also examines today's Federal Reserve meeting under Chair Kevin Warsh, the Netherlands' proposed unrealized gains tax, XRP giving back recent gains, and why it's far too early to declare a new crypto bull market.Happy Hodling, Everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that he has signed the U.S.-Iran peace deal, signaling that the deal has been completed despite a signing ceremony on Friday. The crypto market extended its gains on the back of this development, with Bitcoin breaking above the psychological $67,000 level. ~This episode is sponsored by Uphold~ Uphold Exa Credit Card ➜ https://bit.ly/UpholdExa 00:00 intro 00:10 Sponsor: Uphold 01:00 Deal details 03:30 JD Vance: Post 60 days 05:00 Mohamed El-Erian: We might have dodged a bullet 07:00 Rate hike odds 07:50 SpaceX rug 09:20 Jim Chanos: Is SpaceX Enron 2.0? 11:20 CLARITY Act dead (for now)? 13:45 MiCA pumping ETH 14:40 Tom Lee launches BMNP 15:30 STRC Dividend Day 16:00 STRC vs BMNP 16:45 Jack Mallers : I don't understand it 17:50 BlackRock launches new BITA ETF #Crypto #bitcoin #ethereum ~Iran Peace Deal Rallies Crypto Market!
Our heroes make their return to Blackrock, but more than sharp rocks lurk in the forests of the Frey.Support the showVenture Forth is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We play 5th edition (5e) Dungeons and Dragons in a home-brew D&D actual play setting. Our campaign takes place in the high fantasy realm of Elbor. A world of monsters, heroes and epic tales to be told. D&D is a TTRPG, a tabletop roleplaying game, also known as an RPG. Our gameplay is perfect for beginners to Dungeons and Dragons from episode 1. Olma Marsk is played by Rebecca Hausman, Flynn Felloweave is played by Russ Bartek, March is played by Bridget Black, Ceallach is played by Shane O'Loughlin, Seeker is played by Rodney Campbell, and the DM is played by Ethan Ralphs and Seth Fowler.https://www.ventureforthdnd.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNl1hOaZiXruwLE8Ct1NNNA
BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder says that investor demand for new IPOs like SpaceX can accelerate rapidly as portfolios make room for new allocations. Speaking to Scarlet Fu, Katie Greifeld and Eric Balchunas on Bloomberg ETF IQ, he also remarked that the Fed could benefit from providing less forward guidance during an easing period to create animal spirits and spur market momentum.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When BlackRock needed to tokenize their first fund, they called Securitize. When the New York Stock Exchange decided to trade stocks 24/7 on-chain, they called Securitize. In this interview, CEO Carlos Domingo reveals why the DTCC is repeating the same fatal mistake the telecom companies made when WhatsApp arrived, why the banks actually need the Clarity Act far more than crypto does, and what happens when AI agents start trading tokenized assets in real time. Carlos breaks down the Jump Trading partnership, how atomic swaps are replacing T+1 settlement, why BlackRock choosing Securitize changed everything for institutional adoption, and his vision for a future where tokenized stocks, ETFs, and AI-powered portfolios all live in one wallet — and you don't even know you're using a blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happens when Christ is at the center of every moment of every day? In Colossians 4, Paul challenges us to live with purpose, speak with grace, and look for opportunities to point others toward Jesus. Discover how God uses ordinary people and everyday conversations to make an extraordinary difference in their community and the world.
Plus: A consumer-sentiment index shows Americans are feeling slightly better about the economy. And redemptions requests rose from investors in BlackRock's flagship private-credit fund. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for WSJ's free What's News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Asia infrastructure investing is becoming central to the global energy transition as rising demand, energy security concerns, and the need for more resilient systems accelerate capital deployment across the region. In Southeast Asia, the opportunity is not only about replacing old systems, but building new infrastructure at scale for a growing economy.In this episode of The Bid, host Oscar Pulido speaks live from Ecosperity in Singapore with Salim Samaha, Global Head of Energy at Global Infrastructure Partners, a part of BlackRock, and Heidi Yip, Head of Sustainable and Transition Solutions for Asia Pacific at BlackRock. Together, they discuss how the infrastructure opportunity is evolving globally, why Asia's transition differs from Western markets, and where investors are seeing momentum across renewables, grids, storage, and system flexibility. Key insights include:· How Asia's infrastructure build-out differs from Western markets· Why energy security is becoming inseparable from the energy transition· Where capital is flowing across renewables, grids, storage, and interconnection· How public-private partnerships can help mobilize transition finance· Why execution bottlenecks, permitting, and offtake frameworks remain critical· Where AI, innovation, and rising demand may reshape future infrastructure needsKey moments:00:00 Asia Infrastructure Boom01:06 Live From EcoSperity03:16 Energy Transition Now04:20 Southeast Asia Grid Challenge06:43 West vs Asia Reality Check08:58 How APAC Investors Deploy Capital11:26 Scaling Projects and Labor Crunch13:17 Where Capital Flows and Bottlenecks15:13 Five Year Outlook and Innovation17:23 Wrap Up and Disclosures
Asia infrastructure investing is becoming central to the global energy transition as rising demand, energy security concerns, and the need for more resilient systems accelerate capital deployment across the region. In Southeast Asia, the opportunity is not only about replacing old systems, but building new infrastructure at scale for a growing economy.In this episode of The Bid, host Oscar Pulido speaks live from Ecosperity in Singapore with Salim Samaha, Global Head of Energy at Global Infrastructure Partners, a part of BlackRock, and Heidi Yip, Head of Sustainable and Transition Solutions for Asia Pacific at BlackRock. Together, they discuss how the infrastructure opportunity is evolving globally, why Asia's transition differs from Western markets, and where investors are seeing momentum across renewables, grids, storage, and system flexibility. Key insights include:· How Asia's infrastructure build-out differs from Western markets· Why energy security is becoming inseparable from the energy transition· Where capital is flowing across renewables, grids, storage, and interconnection· How public-private partnerships can help mobilize transition finance· Why execution bottlenecks, permitting, and offtake frameworks remain critical· Where AI, innovation, and rising demand may reshape future infrastructure needsKey moments:00:00 Asia Infrastructure Boom01:06 Live From EcoSperity03:16 Energy Transition Now04:20 Southeast Asia Grid Challenge06:43 West vs Asia Reality Check08:58 How APAC Investors Deploy Capital11:26 Scaling Projects and Labor Crunch13:17 Where Capital Flows and Bottlenecks15:13 Five Year Outlook and Innovation17:23 Wrap Up and Disclosures
SpaceX al suo debutto in BorsaSpaceX debutta oggi al Nasdaq con una domanda sempre più frenetica: gli investitori retail hanno messo in campo ordini per oltre 100 miliardi di dollari, per un collocamento record che ha in tutto l'obiettivo di rastrellare almeno 75 miliardi, polverizzando il massimo precedente stabilito da Saudi Aramco nel 2019 con meno di 30 miliardi. Non basta: mille grandi protagonisti istituzionali, tra cui BlackRock che ha piazzato un ordine da 5 miliardi, si sono posizionati per un biglietto d'ingresso nel nuovo sogno di Elon Musk. E un 10% diretto a ordini internazionali. La corsa agli ordini promette di sostenere gli acquisti del titolo una volta in Borsa, gonfiando i guadagni. Molto dipenderà dai dettagli finali: l'azienda non è parsa voler alterare le condizioni del collocamento, con 555,6 milioni di azioni al prezzo di 135 dollari, per una valutazione complessiva di SpaceX di quasi 1.800 miliardi. Alcuni osservatori non escludono però correzioni in extremis per tenere conto delle circostanze. Gli scambi iniziali non risolvono comunque il rebus del gruppo, in crescita ma in perdita e con fatturato annuale di meno di 19 miliardi: impero dell'innovazione o rischioso minestrone tech, con satelliti, razzi e intelligenza artificiale tenuti assieme dalla vulcanica leadership di Musk e dai suoi progetti visionari, fatti di colonie su Marte, centri dati orbitanti e onnipresente AI. Ne parliamo con Giancarlo Giudici, Co-direttore del Programma Executive in Finance di POLIMI Graduate School of Management.
Blue Alpine Cast - Kryptowährung, News und Analysen (Bitcoin, Ethereum und co)
Jetzt bei Kraken anmelden und 30 EUR Bonus erhalten: https://bit.ly/kraken-bonusThemen & Timestamps:00:00 BlackRock, Ondo und Franklin Templeton01:28 Die grossen Player im RWA-Markt03:00 Warum BlackRock Ondo Finance stärkt04:07 Zinsen und Rendite mit RWA-Produkten06:00 USDY und Zugang für Kleininvestoren08:02 RWA-Token bedeuten nicht automatisch Cashflow08:56 Smart-Contract- und On-chain-Risiken11:03 Private Credit, Immobilien und die nächste RWA-Welle
P.M. Edition for June 11. After threatening more strikes against Iran this morning and then calling them off, President Trump said this afternoon that there's an agreement to end the war–although final details still need to be completed. Plus, Trump says he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, a top federal Manhattan prosecutor and former SEC chairman, as intelligence director. WSJ national security reporter Yoko Kubota discusses why this move might help defuse a fight with Congress over a crucial spying tool. And SpaceX officially sold $75 billion worth of shares, making it the biggest IPO ever. Asset managers like BlackRock helped: The Journal learned that it put in an order to buy at least $5 billion worth of SpaceX shares. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Amazon says its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year. And Jeff Bezos launches new AI venture Prometheus while batting down AI job loss fears. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Crypto News: Jim Cramer continues being bearish on Bitcoin. BlackRock and Fidelity are quietly turning bitcoin ETFs into a two-firm market. Mastercard has launched a payment system designed for AI agents to transact autonomously, with Coinbase, Ripple ,Solana and polygon among 30+ partners already signed on.Brought to you by
Today we cover the continued institutionalization of crypto as BlackRock moves closer to launching a Bitcoin income ETF, Japan advances legislation that could pave the way for crypto ETFs, and the CFTC proposes new oversight rules for prediction markets. We also examine the rapid growth of real-world asset tokenization, which has now reached nearly $29 billion, alongside a stablecoin market that has expanded to roughly $320 billion.Matt also discusses Singapore's DBS Bank launching tokenized gold products, why tokenization may be the most important trend in crypto today, and whether a potential SpaceX IPO could pull speculative capital away from Bitcoin, AI, and other risk assets. Finally, we review the latest crypto prices, Bitcoin's recovery above $62,000, and why the real story may not be price action at all, but the continued buildout of crypto infrastructure happening behind the scenes.Happy Hodling, Everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Blackrock's Rick Rieder maps out his forecast for the market, Fed and upcoming IPOs. Plus, Goldman Sachs' Tony Pasquariello gives his instant reaction to the Dow's big jump during the last hour of trading today. And, Oliver Renick looks at the options in space stocks ahead of SpaceX's highly anticipated market debut. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Blackrock Silver's updated preliminary economic assessment, which was released in March, for the Tonopah West project in Nevada outlines a US$437 million after-tax NPV and 28% IRR over an 11.2-year mine life, anchored by a 90% increase in indicated resources. CEO Andrew Pollard spoke to Mining Stock Daily. The conversation covers the trade-offs between the 2024 and 2026 studies, the two-thirds inferred mine plan, permitting and water questions ahead of a targeted H2-2027 underground development decision, and the 17,000-metre expansion drill program now underway.
BlackRock's Steve Laipply says declining inflation and a stronger growth outlook are pushing real yields higher, reshaping fixed income markets. He highlights record inflows into bond ETFs, especially short-term treasuries, as investors avoid duration and seek income. Laipply adds that bonds are regaining appeal as a portfolio diversifier, offering competitive alternatives to equities.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about
Blue Alpine Cast - Kryptowährung, News und Analysen (Bitcoin, Ethereum und co)
Jetzt bei Kraken anmelden und 30 EUR Bonus erhalten: https://bit.ly/kraken-bonusRWA (Real World Assets) sind 2026 der wichtigste Infrastruktur-Trend: tokenisierte Anleihen haben on-chain 20 Milliarden Dollar geknackt. Ich erkläre, was RWA und tokenisierte Anleihen sind, warum BlackRock und JPMorgan einsteigen, und was das für DACH-Anleger bedeutet. Themen & Timestamps:00:00 RWA-Markt knackt 20 Mrd. USD00:33 Wall Street kommt on-chain01:02 Was bedeutet RWA-Tokenisierung?02:05 Die drei Säulen des RWA-Markts04:06 Tokenisierte US-Staatsanleihen05:00 Ondo Finance als Brücke zu DeFi05:58 Renditeprodukte vs. ONDO-Governance-Token08:00 Tokenisierte Aktien und Ondo Global Markets
BlackRock's IBIT is sitting about $13 billion underwater on its Bitcoin holdings. Every ETH ETF is in the red. David walks through which funds bought the top, which took profit, and what happens to crypto if ETF holders finally crack. Plus: a preview of DAS Asia and DAS London, and the SpaceX pre-IPO trade on Hyperliquid. TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Intro (01:16) Crypto ETFs (15:54) DAS Events 2026 (18:07) SpaceX Perps FOLLOW THE SHOW › David — https://x.com/dcanellis › The Breakdown — https://x.com/TheBreakdownBW › The Breakdown Newsletter — https://blockworks.com/newsletter/the-breakdown Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to the Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ DISCLAIMER As always, remember this podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice.
This week on Market Mondays, we broke down everything from the Knicks' impact on MSG stock to the future of AI, Bitcoin, ETFs, and the biggest opportunities shaping the next decade.We discussed why market volatility creates opportunity, what Trump's latest AI comments could mean for investors, OpenAI IPO speculation, the AI race with China, and whether Bitcoin's long-term thesis remains intact. We also covered BlackRock's ETF strategy, Ethereum's role in tokenization, the rise of one-click portfolios, and why Eli Lilly just joined the trillion-dollar club.Plus, we gave our thoughts on SpaceX IPO rumors, CrowdStrike's pullback, Marvell's momentum, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy, and how to build a portfolio designed to win in the AI era. If you're serious about investing, wealth building, and staying ahead of market trends, this is an episode you don't want to miss.#MarketMondays #Investing #StockMarket #Bitcoin #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #BlackRock #Ethereum #ETFs #TechStocks #WealthBuilding #Finance #InvestingEducation #earnyourleisureAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
"Who's the founder of gold? We don't know." Adam Back explains why Bitcoin's missing founder is a feature, not a bug and why he thinks we may never learn who Satoshi really is. Along the way, the Blockstream CEO covers Bitcoin treasury companies, neobanks like River, and the incentive structure pulling individuals, companies, and governments toward Bitcoin. Use code BM10 to get 10% off Bitcoin 2027 Conference in Nashville: https://2027.b.tc
Rassegna stampa economico-finanziaria del 9 Giugno 2026, strutturata per macro-temi e basata sulle principali testate giornalistiche nazionali.RISIKO BANCARIO — IL GRANDE RIASSETTOTestate: Corriere della Sera / Il Sole 24 Ore / La Stampa / La Repubblica / Il Messaggero / MF / Il Foglio • Intesa Sanpaolo lancia l'OPAS su MPS del valore di 30,6 miliardi di euro (contanti + azioni), in tandem con Unipol. Ratio di scambio: 1,6 azioni Intesa + 1 euro cash per ogni azione MPS. • Reazione di Borsa (seduta 9/6): MPS +12,96%, Bper +5,18%, Unipol +4,55%, Generali +2,8%, Mediobanca +11,9%; Intesa -1,37%, UniCredit -2%. • Perimetro dell'operazione: Intesa tratterrà le 625 filiali di Mediobanca (con la quota del 13,2% in Generali), wealth management e investment banking. Unipol rileverà la sede storica di Rocca Salimbeni e 635 sportelli, trasferiti a Bper. Il nuovo istituto si chiamerà Banca Monte dei Paschi. • Target post-aggregazione Intesa: ~126 miliardi di capitalizzazione (seconda in Eurozona per market cap), 20 milioni di clienti, attività per ~1.700 miliardi, utili consolidati sopra i 16 miliardi nel 2029, con 61 miliardi di cedole distribuite entro quella data. • Impegno Unipol: Cimbri stima una quota di circa il 40% della seconda banca del Paese; investimento fino a 3,5 miliardi. Unipol-Bper nel 2025 ha generato 450–460 milioni di utili, con target 2026 a 930 milioni. • Azionariato post-Opas (mappa): Compagnia San Paolo 5,16%, BlackRock 6,98%, Fondazione Cariplo 4,30%, Delfin 3,81%, Caltagirone 2,93%, MEF 1,06%. • MPS sotto passivity rule: Qualsiasi mossa difensiva richiede assemblea straordinaria a maggioranza qualificata. Il cda si avvale degli advisor Ubs Europe e BofA Securities. Banco Bpm è di fatto escluso dall'operazione. • UniCredit–Generali: Orcel ha consolidato una quota tra il 9% e il ~10% nel Leone (titoli fisici + derivati). La quota finale in Commerzbank si conoscerà il 16 giugno 2026; al 40% Commerz entra nel consolidato, al 66% UniCredit ottiene il controllo dell'assemblea. • BTP Italia Sì: In collocamento dal 15 al 19 giugno 2026, durata 5 anni. • Pirelli/Golden Power: CNRC ha presentato ricorso al TAR contro il Golden Power applicato alla società (Il Sole 24 Ore).ENERGIA — PIANO UE SULLE BOLLETTETestate: La Stampa / Il Giornale / Corriere della Sera • Bozza legislativa UE attesa il 22 luglio 2026: La Commissione punta a tassare l'elettricità in misura inferiore al gas per favorire la transizione energetica e ridurre le bollette di famiglie e imprese. • Target contatori smart: Il 50% dei clienti elettrici dotato di contatore intelligente entro il 2030, per consentire l'accesso a tariffe dinamiche nelle fasce orarie più economiche. • Target elettrificazione: Passare dall'attuale 23% al 32% entro il 2030. Gli oneri di rete oggi pesano per circa un quarto della bolletta elettrica media UE. • Piano italiano rinnovabili approvato: La Commissione ha dato il via libera al piano italiano da 23 miliardi di euro in aiuti di Stato per produzione da fonti rinnovabili (eolico, solare, idroelettrico, biogas). I costi rientrano nella flessibilità del Patto di Stabilità fino allo 0,6% del PIL, sostenuti fino al 2028. • Rottura FCAS Francia-Germania: Airbus e Dassault non hanno trovato un accordo sul caccia di sesta generazione. Si apre lo spazio per il programma GCAP (Italia–UK–Giappone), con Leonardo tra i partner fondatori, primo decollo previsto entro il 2035 (Il Messaggero / Il Giornale).MACRO E FISCOTestate: Il Sole 24 Ore / Italia Oggi / La Stampa • Spesa pubblica 2025: Secondo La Stampa, lo Stato ha speso circa 1.155 miliardi, quasi il +30% rispetto al decennio precedente. La spesa per interessi è salita da 60 miliardi nel 2019 a 87 miliardi nel 2025. La proiezione al 2029 è di 1.245 miliardi. • Garanzie statali nel sistema bancario: Tra Sace e Mediocredito Centrale il sistema gode di una garanzia statale per 400 miliardi a Basilea (Tremonti, Il Sole 24 Ore). • Patrimoniale: Il 64% dei cittadini si dichiara favorevole a una tassa patrimoniale, secondo un sondaggio citato da Italia Oggi. • Fisco e accessi brevi: Italia Oggi segnala l'intensificazione dei controlli fiscali mediante accessi di breve durata, modalità più agile rispetto agli accertamenti tradizionali. • Riforma Corte dei Conti: Il tetto al 30% del danno risarcibile non è un condono; prima della riforma il recupero era al 10%. I presidenti di sezione passeranno da 104 a 50 (Il Sole 24 Ore, int. Miele).GEOPOLITICA ECONOMICATestate: Corriere della Sera / La Stampa / Il Messaggero / Il Foglio • Israele–Iran, cessate il fuoco temporaneo: L'Iran ha lanciato 24 missili balistici su Israele (tutti intercettati); Israele ha risposto colpendo infrastrutture energetiche iraniane, con 15 feriti secondo fonti ufficiali di Teheran. Tregua annunciata ma dichiarata reversibile da Teheran in caso di nuove azioni nel Libano meridionale. • Xi in Corea del Nord: Prima visita dal 2019; obiettivo dichiarato: contenere il rafforzamento dell'asse Kim–Putin, alimentato dai proventi energetici e finanziari che la guerra in Ucraina ha portato nelle casse di Pyongyang. • Armenia: Pashinyan rieletto con ~50% dei voti contro il 33% delle opposizioni filo-russe, consolidando il percorso di avvicinamento all'UE. • Difesa italiana — DDL in arrivo al CdM: Appalti accelerati per il riarmo, centro anti-disinformazione, commissione interforze per le nomine. Il requisito di carriera interforze per i vertici militari scatterà dal 2033 (Il Messaggero).GIUSTIZIA E COMPLIANCETestate: Libero Quotidiano / La Verità / Il Riformista / Il Dubbio • Caso Minetti: Il Gruppo Cipriani ha presentato richieste di risarcimento tra 220 e 250 milioni di euro contro Il Fatto Quotidiano, con cause aperte a Roma e New York. • Obblighi vaccinali Covid: La Cassazione ha dichiarato illegittima la sospensione di un amministrativo che rifiutava il vaccino in una sede senza pazienti. L'AUSL Romagna dovrà corrispondergli 11 mesi di stipendio più tredicesima e scatti. Spese legali: 13.200 euro, di cui il 60% a carico dell'ente. • Archiviazione Berlusconi–Dell'Utri: Il costo complessivo per lo Stato stimato in “oltre 25 milioni di euro” (Il Riformista).
Keith talks with data-driven investor Neal Bawa, the "mad scientist of multifamily," about why apartment values have dropped 20%–30% while single-family prices have stayed resilient. They break down how interest rate shocks, the homeowner lock-in effect, and a wave of new multifamily supply are reshaping returns for today's investors. Keith and Neal also dissect the build-to-rent model—who it really serves, how apartment oversupply is pressuring its rents, and why pending legislation could upend the space. Neal closes with a specific, data-backed timeline for when multifamily rents and values may finally turn the corner, giving listeners a concrete roadmap instead of vague market guesses. 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The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest businesses. That's not a coincidence, and that's why we discuss housing here. And there's been a chronic shortage of affordable housing last month at a commencement speech, Harrison Ford, yes, the guy that played both Han Solo and Indiana Jones, talked about how a fulfilling life has both passion and purpose. Passion is what gets you out of bed in the morning, purpose is what helps you sleep at night, you and I. We can bring this mindset to our lifestyle, to the business we do, and to our investing. Treating tenants well is what helps real estate investors sleep well at night. While we're doing well, we can be doing good too. Multifamily syndicators keep failing, going out of business, and losing all of their investors' money due to mortgage rate resets. It just keeps happening. What this really means, that these groups that pooled together investor money to buy apartment buildings, largely that were set up in 2022 and earlier keep blowing up almost fully due to the fact that interest rates reset higher. Some of them had a fixed rate for five years. Well, rates spiked four years ago, and that's why a lot of them have yet to blow up, and these apartments have lost so much value that no one will refinance them, you know. Even if that apartment operator increased the net operating income over the years, even if rents went up, it doesn't matter. So, you still haven't heard the last of it. Do you remember a couple years ago, when a lot of people in the apartment space, they were saying just stay alive till 25 and that nonsense, like if you keep your head above water until 2025 oh well, then rates are certainly going to fall, and everyone's going to be okay. Well, 2025 is long gone. Keith Weinhold 5:01 Mortgage rates haven't fallen in any significant way, so that survive until 25 thing or whatever mantra derivative people used that was a farce, like I've said on the show here for years. You cannot predict interest rates, so I didn't make the call that they were going to go up or down at all, because you can't predict them, but so many people said, oh, rates will fall substantially by now, no way, you just can't make that assumption, you've got to take history over hunches, and all of that, a lot of those multifamily deals 100% depended. depended on refinancing at favorable rates, and that's exactly why they failed. A surefire way to look foolish is to predict interest rates. We'll talk more about the multifamily Armageddon with today's guest. I also want to get into what's called the 21st century road to housing act, because that became one of the most hotly debated housing policy provisions this year. And what this is, is a Senate bill, and it would require certain large institutional investors that develop these bills to rent single family communities. It would force them to sell those homes to individual buyers within seven years. So, in other words, what a big firm could do is build a neighborhood of rental homes, lease them for up to seven years, but they couldn't hold on to them any longer than that. They couldn't hold them indefinitely as rentals, this bill is not aimed at you, the individual investor. It is aimed at big institutions, and what I mean by that is that's generally defined as owning 350 or more homes. That's what we're talking about here. Small landlords and mom and pop investors are not the target, it targets corporate portfolios, and this means groups whose names you've probably heard of, like Blackstone, First Key Homes, Progress Residential, and Invitation Homes. They are some of the heavyweights that the government is looking to clamp down on, so whenever you hear someone talk about big Wall Street landlords, that is who they're talking about. Now, some groups are pretty worried about the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, like the NHB, that's the National Association of Home Builders, and a lot of multifamily groups are concerned, and why is that? Well, the effect is it could dramatically reduce new housing production. Keith Weinhold 7:44 See, a big institution like First Key Homes or Blackstone, they wouldn't want to even get into this business anymore. They wouldn't want to build big build to rent communities anymore if they have to sell them all within seven years. See, they want to buy and hold for the long term, kind of like what you and I are doing, because you and I know that owning a group of selective buy and hold single family rentals is a really profitable place to be, but so if they don't want to build, then that creates a reduction in supply, which could make prices go up, and then obviously hurt those trying to afford their own home. Well, that would defeat the purpose of this whole thing. I mean, my gosh, this always seems to happen when government gets involved. So, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act could limit supply, which is the exact opposite of its intent to get first-time home buyers into their first home, and if this passes, it does have bipartisan support. This lower supply, then yes, indeed puts upward pressure on prices. Just amazing. So then it could actually go on to help the everyday mom and pop investor, like you and I, that already owns property, the individual at last check, though they're looking to pass a version that still restricts some of these giant institutions from getting into build to rents, but yet it does not have that seven year sale requirement. What's really important to remember here is that Washington, they're looking to stifle big Wall Street players from the rental market, which could reduce supply. They're not targeting individual investors. The context that's important is that these groups, they own 10s of 1000s of homes, they don't own hundreds of 1000s, and they don't own a million, so it's a really small percentage of the housing market, whatever direction policy breaks, then the headlines that it creates are just greater in magnitude than the effect on the market is. It's an important frame of reference here. Let's meet this week's guest. This week we're welcoming back a guest that we haven't heard from in a year or two in real estate circles. He is popularly known as the mad scientist of multifamily. He's quite an in-demand speaker. He has a $500 million multifamily portfolio that he essentially shares with over 1300 investors. He's sharp, a good educator, and a straight shooter. That's why he's here. It's a warm welcome back to Neal Bawa. Neal Bawa 10:32 Thanks for having me on the show again. It's delightful to be here, and so many interesting things to talk about in the world these days. Keith Weinhold 10:38 There really are.. I don't know if we can get it all in, Bawa is spelled B A W A. Neal, I want to get to your future housing market outlook later. How you think the future looks, including when multi families quasi Armageddon might end. But first, you're known as a data driven real estate guy. Tell us about that, and how being data driven makes you profitable. Neal Bawa 11:03 I see concern, and I'll tell you why. The single family and multifamily market have been atrociously incredibly divergent since the first quarter of 2022 They have not tracked yet each other at all, even though if you look at the last 50 years, they tend to track each other. So you know, 2008 was a Armageddon for single family, Armageddon for multifamily, and they both sort of came up in 2012 2013 and then they had a really good time until Covid. Keith Weinhold 11:30 Yeah, Neal Bawa 11:31 but the second quarter of 2022 is when Fed started raising rates, and since then we've sort of slid - multifamily has gone down in terms of pricing between 20 and 30% depending upon the metro, you know, and depending upon whether it's new construction, new construction assets have gone down more than 30% and existing assets that are filled up have gone down by 20 to 30% depending upon the metro. So, metros that have a large amount of supply, closer to 30% decline in value, the metros that have less supply probably closer to 20% decline in value, right. Keith Weinhold 12:03 Demand demand has been pretty resilient. It's more of a supply story. Neal Bawa 12:06 It's a huge supply story, right. So, if you look at, you know, occupancy, essentially what's happened is there was so much supply that came in that really people started on those projects in 2022 maybe they didn't start a construction until 2023 they didn't finish construction until 2025 so they started leasing up in 2025 They had to give offer concessions two months, sometimes three months free, and so that pushed down the rents in 2025. And they're not done, because you typically can't rent an apartment in six months. If it's brand new, it's going to take you about 18 months to rent it, and sometimes 24 months, and so it's affected our rents in 2025 it's affecting our rents in 2026. Now it's unlikely to affect it in 2027 but we'll go there, you know, at a later stage. But at the moment, we, what we've seen is negative rent growth in the United States for multifamily for the last 12 to 15 months, and what I think is going to be negative rent growth in Q of this year and Q2 of this year, so Q1 was negative, Q2, which we are in now, is likely to be negative or flat now. Single family, on the other hand, has gone in a different direction, which has been very difficult to understand, and I believe it's taken me a while to really understand this, but I think I've finally figured it out. Single family prices are not down since 2022 which makes no sense at all, because the average mortgage in the United States today is almost double, almost double, not quite double, but almost double of what it was in at the beginning of 2022 when interest rates were about 3.3 3.4% Right now we're sitting around, you know, six and a half percent interest rates, so not quite doubled interest rates, but they've obviously gone up a fair bit, and as a result, your average, you know, mortgage has almost doubled, but home prices haven't dropped, which makes no sense if you really think about it, because home prices are a factor of demand, and they're also a factor of people's ability to pay, so if all of a sudden within four years you're paying, the mortgage is doubled, then less people are going to be able to buy, but it stayed up, the market has stayed up, and the biggest reason it stayed up is because of what is known as the lock-in effect. So, the US market typically has a million new homes every year, and there's more than a million existing homes that are transacted, right? So, it's an open market, it's a perfect competition market, but it hasn't been perfect competition for the last four years, because so many people locked in ridiculously low interest rates. Neal Bawa 14:28 Perfect example, in 2021 and 2022 I have a 15 year mortgage at 1.75% If I sell my house back to myself, my mortgage quadruples, quadruples, right, because it goes from 1.75% to six and a half percent, so I can't even imagine even think about leaving my home, right, because it's just such a perfect loan. Most people don't have anywhere near 1.75% but there's lots of people with more mortgages in the 3% three and a half percent, and 4% range that basically can't go anywhere, and because those homes are not coming into the market. The last three years the market has had this unusual not enough supply factor, and that's been keeping prices up. That is ending. That is ending, because what we've been tracking is the percentage of homes in the United States that have low mortgages. Low is simply defined as anything under four and a half percent, and that percentage is going down each quarter, because you know divorces happen, deaths happen, you know people move for jobs, and so every time that happens, that locked in rate goes away, because you sell your home and move on, and so for a while that lock in effect was predominant, it was controlling everything, but as time has gone on, interest rates were higher in 2324 2526 For also almost four years have passed since the rate started going up. So each quarter the percentage of homes in the US that have these low interest rates has slowly moved down, and we're almost back to a normal timeframe. Neal Bawa 15:53 And this is causing the single family market to not have a conniption, but we're starting to see a balancing of the market, where it's not just a buyer's market anymore, in some places it's actually seller's market, some places it's a buyer's market. So we're now starting to see home prices drop in number of markets in the United States. I can't say that they've dropped in super majors, but we're seeing a flattening out effect of home prices in most metros in the US, and there should be a flattening effect. Just to be blunt, I mean, obviously I own a bunch of single-family homes, so I just wanted them to keep going up for selfish reasons. But if you think about it, we had huge home price growth in like 30 plus percent in number of years, 2021 22 and even 23 and during those years, salaries only went up by two to 3% a year. In one year, they went up by 4% and rents also went up like crazy. There was a 2021 was 15% rent growth year. So, at some point, there had to be an adjustment, and we are in that period of adjustment where single family prices are basically flat on a national basis. Yes, going up in the San Francisco Bay Area because of AI, and going up in a couple other technology-heavy metros because of AI, but otherwise fairly flat, and I don't expect that to change for the next year. So, my forecast is next 12 to 18 months, home prices in the US are going to be flat on a nominal basis, they're going to be down on an inflation-adjusted basis, but you know, because of the Iran, more inflation's three and a half percent, so home prices should go up three and a half percent. So, if they stay where they are, well, they're really dropping three and a half percent. Keith Weinhold 17:29 Yeah, before this year began, I released our forecast, it was for 2% nominal home price appreciation in the one to four unit space for the US this year, and I still like how that looks. There's so much to unpack with what you just talked about. In my view, there's nothing unusual at all that when mortgage rates rose sharply a few years ago, that home prices rose as well. Why? Because actually, that's what usually happens, which is counterintuitive to most people. In all of our lifetimes, residential real estate prices have only fallen significantly one time, that was around 2008 due to a number of unusual circumstances. The only thing that's a bit different this time is, of course, how fast rates increased in 2022 and 2023 and people wondering if residential real estate prices could still keep up, and they certainly have, but yeah, you brought up this dichotomy, this bifurcation about how the apartment market and the one to four unit space kind of separated from each other in 2022 or 2023 That's what's so interesting. Neal Bawa 18:36 I do want to point out a couple things, though, and I don't want to be a Pollyanna here and talk about negative stuff, but I think that there's big difference between 2008 and that timeframe and where we are today, and that difference is, and it has multiple parts. Not all of your audience is aware of this. Until about 2012 the United States had very reasonable birth rates. You know, we were one of those countries that had avoided the debacle that Japan, Korea, China, and a number of other countries are seeing South Korea being the absolute worst, where basically they were producing one baby per generation, where you need about 2.2 babies just to kind of keep your population where it is, right, and the US was unusually high in that, and that we were still above that threshold, which meant that our population would continue to grow and not fall. Now, there was two reasons our population was growing: One, we had more than 2.2 babies per household, and second, we had a very significant amount of legal and a very significant amount of illegal or undocumented immigration. Right, so we had both of those pipelines today. All three of those have flipped, so the United States now basically looks like Korea or China or Japan in that every household is producing about one and a half babies, which means that our population growth, which hasn't stopped yet, because it takes a while for these things to catch. Up is likely to stop, like it's, and at some point decline again. Luckily, we're not there yet. The US is a fairly young population, unlike Japan, which is one of the oldest populations in the world. So, it'll, we'll still continue to see population growth, but there is no doubt. And you can ask Chat GPT, right? How has population growth in the United States slowed over the last 20 years. Neal Bawa 19:22 Make me a graph, and it will make you a very nice graph, and you'll very clearly see there's a slowdown in population growth. The second part is both documented and undocumented immigration. It's my estimate that since this administration took over, somewhere between half 1,000,001 million people have left the United States. Now it's very difficult to get an actual number, as you can imagine. A number of these people were undocumented, so we didn't really know how many there were to begin with. And a number of them, when they left, they also left by an undocumented rate, that you know, path. So we've lost a bunch of those people, and also the people that have stayed in the country, we've lost a number of them in the workforce. Here's a perfect anecdote, Keith. About 33% of the construction workforce in the United States was undocumented, one in three. In Texas, as much as 40% Keith Weinhold 19:45 Yeah, that's huge. Neal Bawa 19:45 It's very significant. Number of those people don't show up for work anymore. I don't think they've left the US, at least I don't think so. But they don't show up for work anymore, because that's how they get caught, right. So, what we've seen is that the construction workforce in the United States has become been decimated over the last 12 months, and the impact is much greater in the second half of 2025 than the first half. Why? Because even though they wanted to do ICE enforcement, they just simply didn't have enough agents, enough facilities, enough judges. When the second half of last year, they sort of started catching up on that, hiring more agents, getting more facilities, getting more judges, and so we started to see a real challenge there. I have properties in 10 markets in the US, and what I can say is about seven of those markets, mostly Southern markets, I am beginning to see dropping occupancy related to this phenomenon. I'm seeing a reduction, and so markets like Georgia and Texas, Florida are more hit than my northern markets like Idaho. I haven't seen any impact at all, but these southern markets, multiple properties, multiple metros, I'm seeing this - people, mostly of Spanish, Mexican origin, not renewing leases. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if they're sleeping in their cars. I don't know if they're basically just, you know, staying with mom or staying with, you know, some other family. But I'm seeing a very, very big pullback in my leases tied to this, and occupancy is dropping in those markets that are heavily Hispanic. And so I'm seeing the impact of that on landlords, but I also know that there's an impact on the US at all, and overall demand on rentals, whether it's single family or multifamily. This is a significant impact, because I don't think that the Republicans are going to make a U-turn on this. I don't want to get political, but you know, stating the obvious. Keith Weinhold 19:45 Yes, United States had its biggest birth year in 2007 when there were more than 4 million babies born. The average age of the first time homebuyer today is 40 years old. If that holds true, that peak would take place in 2047 And then, yes, to your point about changes in immigration, yes, it sounds like a potentially a reduction in demand with what you're talking about, with some vacancies, and also maybe a reduction in supply when you have fewer construction workers to build these places as well, we're talking about building properties. Neal, I want to talk to you about the build to rent space. Somewhat is build to rent better than traditional real estate? I think that's what we really want to know. And for those that don't know, build to rent means when you construct a property where from day one that construction project is built for a tenant, not an owner occupant. I see a lot of pros and cons there. Can you talk to us about the trade-offs between build to rent and traditional real estate? Neal Bawa 19:52 Yeah, if you think about it, it's a really terrible word, built to rent, because if you think about the word built to rent should be apartments, right, but actually doesn't mean apartments, right? So, built to rent actually means single family or town homes that were built to rent out, right? And then you're like, why don't they just said built to rent apartments and town homes? Well, you know, was too long an acronym, and we suck at acronyms anyway. But BTR, or built to rent, is essentially building single family or town homes, but specifically building them to rent, and it doesn't include any apartments at all, right? And the reason why the BTR market was growing in the last five or six years is that roughly 18 million American families can no longer afford to buy starter single family homes, you know, and by starter I mean, small old single-family homes. That's how Americans usually started, you know, in their 20s and 30s. They would buy these homes, some of them, but they would fix up, and then they over time, in their 30s, late 30s and 40s and 50s, they would upgrade, and then at starting the 50s, it would flatten out, and then the 60s, they would start to downgrade, right? That's been a typical thing that's happened in America for 56 5070, years. Well, that is, cannot happen anymore. And it broke in 2022 until 2022 It was a normal cycle beyond 2022 because interest rates almost doubled, and the mortgages almost doubled, but the incomes only increased by 10 to 20% There became this orphaned generation of Americans, roughly 18 million families, that simply cannot afford to buy that starter home, and they are now forever renters. They don't know it. They think that they're going to catch up at some point, but five minutes with an Excel spreadsheet, I could prove it to them that they're not going to catch up. Neal Bawa 25:35 Maybe one in 100 families would see a very large increase in income, and that would result in them catching up, but for the most part, as a group, these 18 million families, they're forever enters as a group that didn't exist before 2021 right. It's entirely because of this outrageous increase in mortgages, while not seeing a drop in home prices, that led to this, and so those orphan families, they actually earn pretty well, so these are families that make 70, 80, $90,000 in mid markets. They make over $100,000 if they're living on the coasts or in expensive markets, and they still can't buy that, you know, starter home. And so they don't want to live in apartments. I have lots of apartments, old ones, new ones, and I want these people to live there, but they don't want to live there, and so they've been looking for an option, and that option has been developers like me building communities of 200 300 townhomes or single family homes with a small little yard, and then basically from day one, instead of selling them, renting them out, and then once you're done renting out the whole community with 200 tenants, then you sell that to an apartment company. You know, there's lots of apartment companies in the US that have 100,000 units. Well, they want to buy these because the turnover is lower. So, what happens is most of these town homes and single-family homes for rent. Families come in, and they typically rent for three to five years before they move, whereas in on my apartments I lose 40% of my tenants each year. So, if I have 200 tenants, I lose 80 of them every year, and I have to basically go back, clean up those units, deal with the vacancy. But when I have townhome communities like my Idaho Falls townhome community. I lose a tenant at roughly every four years, and so, as you can imagine, profitability goes up when turnover goes down, right? Neal Bawa 27:31 Because you don't have that cost of turnover and vacancy, and so eventually those large landlords that are holding 100,000 units figured out, I like this, what Neal Bawa is doing, he's building these 200 townhomes, I want to buy these from him when they're rented. I don't want to build them, I don't want to lease them up, I just want to buy them when they're stabilized. And so BTR became that name for that marketplace where developers would build townhomes and single families, rent them out, and then sell them to institutional, and it was some— Keith Weinhold 27:56 People think of fabulous institutionalization of the starter home. Neal Bawa 28:00 And in many ways it is, because what happened is, for a while, these institutional players, like Blackstone and BlackRock, they were like, we are just going to go out and buy 50,000 single-family homes, and that's going to be the institutionalized. Well, that worked really well if you bought in 2008 2009 2010 2011 because you got them bought them at a discount, but when they started buying them in 2015, 16, 17, 18 at ever higher prices, they didn't make any money. So the vast majority of these public funds that were created to buy large amounts of single family have failed if they've purchased anything in the last seven or eight years. If they bought before that, they made huge amounts of money. Family homes are so expensive that basically buying them for rental did not make sense, so these companies have now pivoted to saying we'll only buy communities that have 100 or 200 or 300 of these homes, because then we get the benefits of having centralized leasing, centralized property management, centralized maintenance, and I don't have homes spread all over the metro, they're all in one place, and I can make more profit from that. In theory, that's been good, and you might think that I'm bullish on BTR, but I'm actually today bearish on BTR for one single reason. About seven months ago, Republicans started talking about a bill - I don't know what the name of the bill is, but what this bill does is it forces builds to rent developers like me within seven years of building the property to sell all of the homes in that property to single family tenants, not to Blackstone, not to Blackrock, but to single family tenants. Hasn't passed yet, but it passed the Senate with an 8910 vote, which means that both Democrats and Republicans wanted to vote for this. If it passes the House, and because Donald Trump himself is very heavily opposed to it, he's made it very clear he doesn't like this. He's a developer, obviously. It hasn't passed the House yet, but if it passes the house, that will destroy the build to rent market. No one will ever build build to rent, because the worst possible thing is I build this, and within seven years I have to actually sell it to individual buyers. If I do that, my banks are going to hate me and not give me loans to build BTR anymore. Obviously, there's going to be some grandfathering to the communities that I'm building now, or maybe even build the ones that I'm building in 2027 maybe grandfathered. It usually is, because you know, Congress never does anything retroactively, and they give you a year or two, but if it passes, it's doomsday for BTR. I hope it doesn't happen, but that's the way it's looking, because it's bipartisan. Bipartisan bills are more likely to pass Keith Weinhold 30:40 Now for the mom and pop investor, the individual investor build to rents have obvious appeal due to your point about the lower turnover, lower maintenance costs on a new build, lower insurance costs often on a new build, and then there's the tenant appeal to a new build as well, but of course there is that investor downside. I think a lot of investors are aware of their thin initial cash flow that they're going to have on build to rent, but you know, Neal, another downside with build to rent, I think a lot of investors don't look at is, hey, just how many of these things are they building? Are they building 500 of them? Do I have some overbuild risk if I buy into this community that could suppress occupancy and rents for a while. Neal Bawa 31:21 What we've seen is that when Built to Rent started out in 2017-2018 it was its own asset class. It wasn't competing with apartments, it wasn't competing with single family rentals, it was just its own thing. However, in the last two or three years, as more and more apartments flooded the marketplace, we had a glut. It moved away from that. It basically started getting affected, and the rent started falling, just like any other portion of the market. You know, think of it as three portions of market. There's the built to rent, which I described, you know, brand new single family homes, town homes per rent. There's the apartments, both brand new and existing, and there's the single family rentals, right, which there are millions of. What we are seeing now is it's become one market, right? All of them are affecting each other, and the apartments, which have a huge amount of glut, there's a massive amount of new apartments that have come in in the last two years, are really pushing the rents down for single family, they're pushing that rents down for BTR. So, at this point, what I would say to people that have this concern, Keith, is simply look at incoming apartment supply, because if you're in a marketplace, and I'll give you examples of really good markets that are crushed right now. If you're in a market that has a lot of incoming supply, whether you buy a single family rental, a quadplex, a 50 plex that's an apartment, or 100 unit BTR, you're going to suffer for rent growth if you have a lot of incoming supply in 2026 and that is across the board in every market in the US. Huntsville, Alabama is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting markets in the US for 5 year, 10 year growth, right? Neal Bawa 32:54 If I had to say you don't need a loan, it's just your own cash, no investors, where would you put money in? It would be at the top of my list, not at the very top. Idaho Falls is definitely the number one market in the US in my list, but Huntsville is up there. But right now, do you know what rent growth in Huntsville is? Minus 2% negative 2% Why? Because there's 6000 units coming into a market that's, you know, 1/5 or 1/10 the size of Phoenix, right. It's 1/10 the size of Dallas, but it has half the units of Dallas or Phoenix coming in, and so rent growth is negative there. So, what I would say is today absolutely everyone that is an investor should understand that we live in the magic world of AI, and you should be talking with Chat GPT about incoming supply for any market that you're interested in, and using that to make your decisions, because all of these markets merged, BTR, new apartments, old apartments, single family, everything has emerged in the last 24 months, where they're all affecting each other, and if there's too much supply of any one kind, it's affecting all of the other markets, and that's the message that I have. And none of this is like you have to go buy a $25,000 software like Costar today. Chat GPT is your costar. Keith Weinhold 34:11 You're listening to Get Rich Education. 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And Neal, tell us more about the beleaguered multifamily market that had those aforementioned problems really cropping up in 2022 and we had a lot of supply and spiking rates. What does it look like for the path to recovery for the US multifamily market? Neal Bawa 36:45 Luckily, demand is strong, and even though occupancies have dropped, typically the multifamily market, the large multifamily market in the US, tends to be between 95 and 96% occupied. Okay, and right now we're on 93% so that all that incoming supply means that about 7% of our apartments in the US are empty at the moment, we're trying to fill them, and we are seeing that occupancy drop, not across just new apartments that are leasing up, but also drop in class B and class C. We've also seen a huge increase in concessions, so I studied this quite obsessively, and I can tell you that 2026 in some markets is the recovery year, but not across the board in the United States, and the reason for that is sentiment. Once renters get used to huge amounts of concessions, it's like a drug, it takes a little while before you wean those renters off of those drugs, and so there's that hit right now. Every renter program, Keith Weinhold 37:44 Everyone wants their freebie for good. Neal Bawa 37:46 Yeah, exactly. It's like, hey, what, you're not giving me two months free? Hey, what, you're not even offering me one month free? It takes a while for that expectation to happen, because there's such a huge amount of concessions in the US. So, to me, there are a few markets, usually the smaller markets or very fast growing markets, where there's a recovery in 2026 but otherwise 2027 The first half of 2027 is recovery. The second half of 2027 is fast rent growth in a lot of markets. Why? Because remember, interest rates have been high since 2023 A lot of projects were started in 2022 went into construction in 23 came to market in 25 and 26 Lease ups are happening in 25 and 26 By early mid 27 these are all leased up, right? The second half of 2027 there isn't a lot of delivery in any of these big markets, because to deliver in the second half of 27 you would have started construction in that second half of 2025 and I counted those permits market by market. There's just not a lot, because by that time everyone knew that projects were not getting funded, everyone knew that interest rates were high, so there wasn't a lot of supply of new starts in the apartment market in the second half of 25 so there's not going to be a lot of delivery in the second half of 27 and all of the existing stuff would have been leased by then. So 2026 is one of those years where we could still see more concessions in the second half of 2026 I still see rent growth for apartments to be flat. You mentioned single family might be a little bit higher. It tends to be a little bit higher than apartments in terms of rent growth, but I think flat rent growth for 2026 is what I'm projecting. I'm projecting small rent growth in the first half of 2027 for most markets, and then I'm projecting robust rent growth, call it 3% or greater on an annualized basis, in the second half of 2027 and I'm projecting that most markets in the US that are not seeing a population drop, so count out places like Detroit are going to see a very aggressive rent growth, four or 5% rent growth, that's aggressive in our world, in 2028 28 and 29 are shaping up to be. Supply deficit years, years where supply is well under demand. Keith Weinhold 40:05 It's pretty easy to project completions when you just go ahead and look at starts, and really, what you're counting is the story of absorption. Neal Bawa 40:14 Yep, and what's nice about apartments is you can actually build a single family home in about nine months, right, but you can't build apartments in less than 24 months. There's just so much permitting issues, there's so many delivery issues, fire code issues, and so we have a crystal ball on the multifamily side that we are now getting better at using. I don't think the industry was very good at this in 2022 but now we're really all obsessed with how many permits does my metro have, and how many permits does my state, and how many permits does the US have? And everyone that I know in the industry that's data driven knows that there's a massive glut now, maybe a little bit of a glutton that remaining portion of 2026 equilibrium in 27 and a huge, huge supply deficit in 28 and 29 So everything that I'm doing is based on this, and this crystal ball actually works because of that two year gap between shovels in the ground and delivery, Keith Weinhold 41:10 and it sounds like you've recommended Chat GPT as a go-to source for investors to look into these things, that happens to be my favorite one as well, and you are well, maybe it's a bit too much to say, but it almost feels like to me pioneering with the way that you use AI. In fact, I know before our show today you were running some other things in the background that made me wonder, hey, am I talking to the real Neil or the clone Neil? I know I've got the real Neil here, but why don't you tell us about how you're using AI to make data-driven decisions in real estate? Neal Bawa 41:40 Sure, so the first thing is that we've completed our journey with the low hanging fruit of AI. Every single person in our company is fully trained on how to use Chat GPT. Most of our research-related processes are automated. For example, 100% of our investor updates are now written by Chat GPT. What we do is we go into our property manager meetings on Mondays or Tuesdays sit down with them, beat them up, and the transcript is then taken by our team in the Philippines. They take that transcript and put it into a pre-trained Chat GPT string, it's called a custom GPT, and the string took a while to train, but now that it's trained, all it needs is a transcript. We just copy paste it in, we don't give it any instructions, and it outputs a really wonderful investor update, right. And so our updates for our investors are 99% written by AI. Of course, we'll go in and add our comments at the end of the process. So we've automated investor updates, rent comps, so you know if we are underwriting a new property today, what we do is we simply go into a Google file and copy paste the address and hit enter roughly once a minute. A software, which is written by AI - we're not coders, but the software knows how to write code - it checks the file, if it sees a new address, it goes in there, grabs the address, and then it basically goes to apartments.com rent.com realtor.com and all of these places, and checks the rents for this particular property in two mile radius. It eliminates all the ones that don't match, like you don't want to match the rents of a 1970 or 80s built property with a brand new 25 built property. Those are not comps, it's not comparable. So it basically is very careful, it keeps a radius range of two miles, and also basically is a property of the same kind, you know, like it never matches up a three story property with a 10 story property. Those don't match, one of them obviously is more of a central business district or downtown sort of thing, and so it basically grabs all of those rent comps and then puts them into a file and posts in a Slack channel. Usually it takes it about 1213 minutes to do that, and so whoever put that address in about 12 minutes later goes into the Slack channel and says, "Hmm, these are all my rent comps, right? And boom, now you're basically, you have all these ready rent comps. So, what we've done is, we've automated a significant portion of what we are doing with both our property managers and inside the company with acquisitions and things like that, we're also scraping massive amounts of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, which we just couldn't deal with that data before, and building very beautiful, very interactive dashboards. We don't use Chat GPT for that. We find for dashboarding a tool called Claude, which is by a company called Anthropic, is much better, so we have currently over 150 interactive dashboards that Claude has created that update in real time and give us access to data. If anything, I find that we are in this incredible time where decision making has become much easier, as long as you spend time with these tools. So, in our company we have an absolute mandate that no one has broken for the last year. One year per day, people must program, and by programming we mean issuing common language instructions to tools and build dashboards and build software that automates our work. Have we laid off anyone because of this? I mean that. Be the next obvious question. The answer is no, because it's made it easier for us to serve a much larger audience, so it's easier to grow your company. We just are not hiring anyone, and we haven't hired anybody for the last 18 months, so we have a hiring freeze, but at the same time all of our people are employed because they're they're now much more valuable. So everyone in our company is now a programmer, and even though that sounds weird, it's completely true. Neal Bawa 45:24 Every single person in our company writes code, and they write code by talking with Cloud Code or talking with Chat GPT, and then Chat GPT, of course, does the actual code writing, but people have become very, very good at answering questions and saying, "I want a dashboard like this, turn these radio buttons into drop boxes, and give me the last month, and last three months, and last 12 months, and do this, and do that, and connect this, and I also want to host this on a server, but I want to make sure that only I can see it. I need a password added. Imagine 1000 of these conversations happening in our company every day. Yeah, that's interesting. And what you just described Keith Weinhold 46:00 there at Gro Capitas is somewhat of a microcosm for what's happening in the broader economy, where we've been in this low high or low fire environment for quite a while. Well, Neal, as we're winding down here, we recently had a new Fed chair come in. It seems incomprehensible to me that there could possibly be any rate cuts. I don't know how we could responsibly make a rate cut with all these inflationary layers. We had the pandemic, and then terrorists, and then the Iran war, and the energy shocks, and all these bottled up supply chains. What are your thoughts with regard to the Fed? Neal Bawa 46:29 I still think that we'll get one rate cut, and that rate cut will be based on political pressure. So, for the first time ever, I have seen the Fed break into factions, so if you look at the latest Fed meeting, which happened, you know, there was dissent, there were two clear factions, so the Fed is becoming less data driven and more faction driven, and I think that one of the factions, which obviously wants rate cuts to go down, is going to triumph at some point later in the year, but until we get past the incredible increase in inflation because of the Iran war, I don't think that faction is going to win. Right, there's three or four people in that faction, that's not enough votes to get past the others. So I'm predicting no rate cuts until Q4 of this year. If the Fed was entirely logical, there should still not be a rate card in Q4, but I think it'll happen because there's political pressure. Keith Weinhold 47:25 The preservation of independence is key. Neil Bhawa, this has been great, and a lot of people learn from you. You're a brilliant educator, as well as what you're doing in the multifamily space, and a lot of other places. So, if someone wants to connect with you, learn more about what you do. What's the best way for them to do that? Neal Bawa 47:43 So we built a website called Multi Family University. It's completely free. There is no subscription. There's no upsell. We do not have an educational product, but what we do is each year we have 8-12 webinars that we create with their extraordinarily good looking thanks to the use of AI. Yay, and we share them with an audience, and usually between 5000 and 1000 people attend our webinars each year, of which roughly 1% become investors with us. The rest, the remaining 99% just continue to get free access to data, and we cover every imaginable real estate topic: Single family, multifamily, industrial hotels, self storage, Airbnb, and even controversial topics outside of real estate, like climate change or impact of climate change and impact of AI. So you know, multifamily university is the best place you can go to, multifamily you.com/club It's a free club, and it's free forever. Keith Weinhold 48:42 Neal, it's been valuable to our audience. Thanks so much for coming back out of the show. Neal Bawa 48:46 Thanks for having me. Keith Weinhold 48:53 Oh, a terrific, wide-ranging chat with Neal. There, yes, this interesting 2022 divergence between single family and multifamily, the slowing birth rate, and how that won't really catch up with real estate in a big way for perhaps 20 plus more years. How single family rentals beat multifamily on the basis of tenant retention, and a lot more that we covered there, and he's got a good data driven timeline for apartments being back in favor by 2027 and 2028 After the interview, Neil and I chatted some more off Mike, and he would like to come back on the show next year. We're probably going to have him, because we have a lot more to talk about at that time. We can see if the multifamily market is really healing. Also, did you pick up on this? I wonder why, for his own home he would get a 15 year mortgage at 1.75% interest, so I'll have to ask him about that. That's surely a fantastic interest rate, but a 15 year loan rather than a 30 year that maybe he could have gotten at two and a half percent at the time. Well, 15 year probably. Is not the best use of capital, because it increases your equity position rapidly. When instead, those dollars could have been out in the market earning an actual return somewhere else. But he's a smart guy, he must have an answer. We can talk about that at that time. We've got a lot of terrific shows coming up here on the GRE podcast, specific learning episodes, where it's just me teaching you, as well as new guests and returning guests too. Until next week, I'm your host, Keith Weinhold. Don't quit your daydream. 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Tech stocks resumed their climb while investors wrestle with a key question: has the market come too far too fast? Brian Kersmanc of GQG Partners weighs whether stocks are approaching a top or still have room to run. Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock joins to discuss stock valuations, the economy and what the Federal Reserve could do next as investors navigate a changing backdrop. We get first reaction to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. Nilay Patel of The Verge and Jay Goldberg of Seaport analyze the company's latest announcements and what they mean for Apple's position in AI and consumer technology. Joe Mazzola of Charles Schwab discusses what retail investors are doing with their money and whether anticipation around a potential SpaceX offering is influencing investor behavior. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Mega forces like AI are reshaping markets and economies, with multiple plausible outcomes ahead. Devan Nathwani, Portfolio Strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute, explains why this evolving investment landscape necessitates a new portfolio approach built around exposures—not asset class labels.General disclosure: This material is intended for information purposes only, and does not constitute investment advice, a recommendation or an offer or solicitation to purchase or sell any securities, funds or strategies to any person in any jurisdiction in which an offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. The opinions expressed are as of the date of publication and are subject to change without notice. Reliance upon information in this material is at the sole discretion of the reader. Investing involves risks. BlackRock does and may seek to do business with companies covered in this podcast. As a result, readers should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this podcast.In the U.S. and Canada, this material is intended for public distribution.In the UK and Non-European Economic Area (EEA) countries: this is Issued by BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered office: 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL. Tel:+ 44 (0)20 7743 3000. Registered in England and Wales No. 02020394. For your protection telephone calls are usually recorded. Please refer to the Financial Conduct Authority website for a list of authorised activities conducted by BlackRock.In the European Economic Area (EEA): this is Issued by BlackRock (Netherlands) B.V. is authorised and regulated by the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets. Registered office Amstelplein 1, 1096 HA, Amsterdam, Tel: 020 – 549 5200, Tel: 31-20- 549-5200. Trade Register No. 17068311 For your protection telephone calls are usually recorded.For Investors in Switzerland: This document is marketing material.In South Africa: Please be advised that BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited is an authorised Financial Services provider with the South African Financial Services Board, FSP No. 43288.In Singapore, this is issued by BlackRock (Singapore) Limited (Co. registration no. 200010143N). This advertisement or publication has not been reviewed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In Hong Kong, this material is issued by BlackRock Asset Management North Asia Limited and has not been reviewed by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. In Australia, issued by BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited ABN 13 006 165 975, AFSL 230 523 (BIMAL). This material provides general information only and does not take into account your individual objectives, financial situation, needs or circumstances. Before making any investment decision, you should assess whether the material is appropriate for you and obtain financial advice tailored to you having regard to your individual objectives, financial situation, needs and circumstances. Refer to BIMAL's Financial Services Guide on its website for more information. This material is not a financial product recommendation or an offer or solicitation with respect to the purchase or sale of any financial product in any jurisdictionIn Latin America: this material is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice nor an offer or solicitation to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any shares of any Fund (nor shall any such shares be offered or sold to any person) in any jurisdiction in which an offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities law of that jurisdiction. If any funds are mentioned or inferred to in this material, it is possible that some or all of the funds may not have been registered with the securities regulator of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay or any other securities regulator in any Latin American country and thus might not be publicly offered within any such country. The securities regulators of such countries have not confirmed the accuracy of any information contained herein. The provision of investment management and investment advisory services is a regulated activity in Mexico thus is subject to strict rules. For more information on the Investment Advisory Services offered by BlackRock Mexico please refer to the Investment Services Guide available at www.blackrock.com/mx©2026 BlackRock, Inc. All Rights Reserved. BLACKROCK is a registered trademark of BlackRock, Inc. All other trademarks are those of their respective owners.BII0626-5555643-EXP0627
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In this episode of The Wrap, Chris Whalen reveals an "explosive" John Dizard interview dropping next week on rationing of synthetic lubricants for turbines and hybrid cars before the midterms, while the Trump administration stays blind to the supply crisis from destroyed Persian Gulf refineries. Markets are already processing the damage, but the Trump admin lacks the organization to prepare Americans for coming energy rationing and diesel shortages. Whalen argues the Fed is "powerless" against external war-driven shocks, yet double-digit inflation is "locked in" for certain categories. He's taking profits on AI stocks (AMD, ARM) after 150-200% gains, bought back into Chevron, and declares Bitcoin "toast" as the crypto bubble bursts. He warns communities blocking data center projects will become "very significant negatives" for AI, and describes the current market as "manic"—driven purely by Fed Covid cash into AI stocks as people chase shiny objects rather than value. Monetary-Metals.com/julia Links: The Institutional Risk Analyst: https://www.theinstitutionalriskanalyst.com/ The Wrap: https://www.theinstitutionalriskanalyst.com/post/theira852Inflated book (2nd edition): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inflated-r-christopher-whalen/1146303673Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/rcwhalen Use the code TheWrap2026 for 25% off your first year of The Institutional Risk Analyst https://www.theinstitutionalriskanalyst.com/plans-pricingTimestamps:0:00 Intro and welcome 01:00 Markets this week - Tech hit hard, gold erased gains, Bitcoin crushed4:02 John Dizard interview - Rationing synthetic lubricants before midterms5:30 Trump admin blind to crisis, needs WWII-level mobilization7:58 Suppliers already rationing, July/August shortages pronounced10:41 Double-digit inflation locked in, Fed powerless against external shocks11:58 Taking profits on AI - Sold AMD, ARM, back into Chevron13:19 Fed doesn't understand financial markets or mortgage servicing14:40 Bond spreads tight - Scarcity of quality assets17:28 Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence - Political payback20:20 Trump shoots from hip, alienating Republicans, can't get anything done21:02 Kevin Warsh quote - 3% inflation destroys economies22:10 Gold erased 2026 gains - Higher rates, Bitcoin collapse23:48 Bitcoin toast - BlackRock selling, crypto bubble burst25:19 Manic market not driven by value, chasing AI26:00 Communities blocking data center projects - Politics killing AI27:07 Bubble driven by Fed Covid cash flood28:43 Parting thoughts - Fishing in Maine, Dizard interview next week
Housing costs have exploded across the United States and everyone seems to have a scapegoat in mind. Some blame BlackRock. Others blame immigrants. Still others blame boomers who “refuse to downsize.” But none of these explanations get us close to the real answer. If you want to know what caused the housing affordability crisis, you have to look at the one actor powerful enough to restrict supply everywhere at once: the government.In this episode of the Libertarian Christian Podcast, David Rand takes us through the deeper structural causes of the crisis and explains why the United States went from a property‑rights‑based land system to a managerial, centrally planned regime that chokes off new housing. The result is predictable: scarcity, skyrocketing prices, and a generation locked out of home ownership.Rand is the president and CEO of the Land Liberty Movement, a new national nonprofit working to rebuild the American Dream by restoring property rights, and the freedom to build. He also produces content for Build the Dream, a Substack that explores housing policy. You can also find him on X @David_Rand_ Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com Use code LCI50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings and also support LCI!Full Podsworth Ad Read BEFORE & AFTER processing:https://youtu.be/vbsOEODpQGs ★ Support this podcast ★
ETFs in Asia have grown significantly since the global financial crisis, but their role is changing. What began as a way to access markets is now expanding into broader portfolio applications as investors face more complex market conditions.In this episode of The Bid, Oscar Pulido speaks with Christian Obrist, Head of iShares Distribution in Asia, and Nick Peach, Head of iShares Asia Pacific at BlackRock. They discuss how ETF usage in the region has developed and how investors are applying them across different strategies.The conversation explores how education has shifted from fundamentals to advanced use cases, including liquidity management, tactical allocation, and operational efficiency. It also highlights the role of digital investors, the importance of local market development, and how ETFs are becoming more integrated into portfolio construction.Key moments in this episode00:00 Introduction02:15 How ETF usage in Asia has moved beyond market access03:55 Why ETF investor education is shifting toward advanced applications05:15 Active ETFs and Efficiency06:43 Asia Ecosystem Differences07:40 How digital investors are influencing ETF adoption08:59 Why local market listings matter for ETF accessibility11:27 How ETFs are becoming more integrated into portfolio construction13:52 Asia Weekend Travel Picks15:05 Wrap Up and DisclosuresSources: BlackRock client Survey May 2026
This week Stewart is joined by Patrick Lammers, CEO of Skyborn Renewables for a podcast recorder at WindEurope's event in Madrid. Most offshore wind developers talk about scaling projects, but Patrick discusses Skyborn's approach: building standardised infrastructure that ensures predictable, repeatable success. In a market dealing with massive, unpredictable projects, Patrick shares how standardisation and a focus on supply chain efficiency make offshore wind more reliable, affordable, and bankable than ever before.This episode dives into Skyborn's unique strategy of developing and owning stakes in wind farms, transforming offshore wind into a production line of projects instead of one-off ventures. Patrick discusses the importance of modular, repeatable turbine designs, the power of end-to-end standardisation, and why a focus on predictable Cadence can drastically cut costs and de-risk investments. You'll discover how Skyborn plans to roll out wind farms every 12 to 18 months with a clear, scalable blueprint — unlocking the potential for rapid, sustainable growth across Europe, Asia, and beyond.We break down:The shift from bespoke projects to a factory-like production model in offshore windHow standardisation reduces costs and delays, making projects more attractive to investors like BlackRock and GIPThe importance of clear project staging, supply chain predictability, and local partnerships in managing riskThe feasibility of applying this model outside Europe, especially in Korea and JapanWhy moving towards commodity-scale turbines and supply chain efficiency is essential for industry survivalGWEC's Offshore Wind Podcast is hosted by Stewart Mullin, GWEC's Chief Industry Officer, and Rebecca Williams, GWEC's Deputy CEO, who leads on all GWEC's Offshore Wind work.The podcast, or 'show' as Stewart still likes to call it, features leading voices from across the sector, whether that is large OEMs, key supply chain manufacturers or political leaders driving policy, to talk about how we can all work together to deliver on offshore wind's enormous potential.Follow Stewart on LinkedIn hereFollow Rebecca on LinkedIn here and Instagram hereFollow GWEC on LinkedIn here and Instagram here
Jefferey Jaxen guest hosts this week, while Del continues touring across Europe with our film, An Inconvenient Study.ICAN Lead Attorney Aaron Siri, Esq., joins Jefferey to discuss a controversial Department of Justice brief involving COVID vaccine mandates.Next, we'll highlight Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's new investigation into major food companies' use of glyphosate, exposing shocking regulatory loopholes.Then, as communities across America push back against the rapid expansion of AI data centers, former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd breaks down the surprising financial reality behind the boom.Plus, raw milk activist Max Kane shares his mission to transform the future of food through regenerative agriculture, raw food, and local food systems, and talks about his recent meeting with HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.Guests: Aaron Siri, Esq., Ed Dowd, Max KaneBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.
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Whenever someone is traveling, and they are golfers, the search for the best course in the area begins. There are millions of courses, and it is time to break down all those even in our own section of the country. Today, host Jeff Hartman dives into a course which might be worth the drive if you like courses in the Western Maryland area. More specifically, Hagerstown. On this episode of the Golf Course Review, it is time to break down Black Rock Golf Course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Another good month – investors are giddy. Oil – CRITICALLY LOW inventory (Inside Baseball). Fed governor admits inflation is hard to control. A major name says they are reducing stocks – but are they really? Announcing the Winner of the CTP for Salesforce (CRM). PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? PayPal.Donation.Button({ env:'production', hosted_button_id:'JJJHP2GDEJC7J', image: { src:'https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif', alt:'Donate with PayPal button', title:'PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!', } }).render('#donate-button'); Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm-Up - Another good month - investors are giddy - Oil - CRITICALLY LOW inventory (Inside Baseball) - Fed governor admits inflation is hard to control - A major name says they are reducing stocks - but are they really? - Announcing the Winner of the CTP for Salesforce Markets - Huge reversal in Software stocks - A few names on the move - and moving BIG! - SpaceX IPO - could drain markets - More AI valuations through the roof Pizza Mouth ! Reversal - Software stocks bounced this week on strong results from Snowflake and Okta, which both recorded their best days on record. - The results signal that investors may have been too quick to declare the end of software with the emergence of artificial intelligence. - Even as AI displaces certain tools and job functions, many software companies continue to show growth, assisted by their own AI products. - The iShares Expanded Tech-Software exchange-traded fund rose 8% this week and closed May up 21%, the best monthly performance for the ETF since October 2001. - With this month's rally, the iShares software ETF is only down 3.8% for the year, still badly trailing the Nasdaq, which has gained 18% in 2026. Snowflake - Amazon said Wednesday that its cloud division has landed a $6 billion spending commitment from Snowflake, which includes the use of the company's custom silicon and chips for artificial intelligence. - Snowflake's purchase of services and technology from Amazon Web Services will occur over five years, according to a press release about the agreement. - Snowflake intends to expand its use of Amazon's Graviton general-purpose chips, as well as cloud-based graphics processing units for AI. - Snowflake and Amazon are frenemies - they compete but also partner with each other. - Stock up 36% on this news DELL!!!!!!!!!!!! - Dell Technologies Inc. shares surged due to an outlook for annual sales that far surpassed expectations on demand for servers that power artificial intelligence work. - Revenue in the fiscal year ending in January 2027 will be about $167 billion, including $60 billion from the sale of AI servers, topping analysts' average estimate of $142.1 billion. - The company booked $24.4 billion in AI orders and generated $16.1 billion in AI server sales in the quarter ended May 1, with Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke saying “The AI opportunity shows no signs of slowing.” - The shares surged 33% to $420.91 at the close Friday in New York, the biggest single-day increase in the more than seven years since the hardware maker returned to the public markets after a five-year hiatus as a private firm. - Up 150% YTD More Dell - New XPS 13 at $699 targets price-sensitive market - Aims to compete with MacBook Neo, lower-end Windows devices - Launch amid global memory chip crunch to gain market share - WINING OVER JCD: -- 13.4-inch screen (very compact footprint) Options: 2K / 2.5K LCD (120Hz) OLED touchscreen (higher contrast)| - Very thin bezels ? almost edge?to?edge screen - Weighs 2.2 lbs - one of the lightes out there and a rival to Apple's Macbook Neo Infighting - OpenAI may release multi-chip AI software, challenging Nvidia's (NVDA) ecosystem advantage, according to The Information - Oh, and NVDA is now releasing a CPU for PCs that is aggrevating Intel and AMD Kaboom! - Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in a massive fireball while undergoing a test on a Florida launchpad, dealing a major setback to the company. - The explosion is the latest blow to New Glenn's reputation as a reliable alternative to SpaceX's Falcon 9, and Blue Origin's launch schedule is certain to suffer significant delays. - The incident will also affect Amazon's ambitions to build out its Leo satellite network and may delay Blue Origin's role in NASA's Artemis program, which aims to send humans back to the moon. - As important as it will be for Blue Origin to diagnose the cause of the rocket explosion, it could take many months to repair its launchpad in Florida. Taking Down - Really? - BlackRock Inc. is trimming its bet on stocks across its model-portfolio business as US equities surge to record highs following a strong earnings season. - The firm cut its overweight position in equities from 3% to 1%, triggering billions of dollars of flows between BlackRock's exchange-traded funds. - BlackRock remains confident in equities and will maintain positions that bet on growing corporate profits, artificial intelligence and government spending, but is rotating away from longer-dated US debt in favor of global fixed-income and liquid alternatives. Slight - SpaceX is targeting a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion in its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter. - The company is seeking to raise as much as $75 billion, which would make it the biggest IPO of all time, and is expected to start formal marketing of its IPO as soon as June 4. -SpaceX had $18.7 billion in revenue in 2025, and the company's pitch to investors shows its evolution into an AI services and infrastructure giant with a total addressable market of $28.5 trillion. - 3-5% of the shares will be floated (TIGHT) Strategy: keep supply constrained, which: supports price discovery maintains founder control creates early scarcity dynamics - - - SpaceX has reserved 5% of the shares ?in its planned initial public offering for certain employees and individuals selected by its executive officers, exempting them from post-IPO lock-up restrictions AND.. Even more Valuations - AI giant Anthropic is now worth more than OpenAI. - Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H financing at a $965 billion valuation, a round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. - The financing puts its valuation above that of rival AI lab OpenAI. - The valuation has TRIPLED since February Let's GO! - Shares of LG Electronics surged as much as 24% after the company announced a series of automotive innovations built with technology from Alphabet Inc.'s Google. - The company said its new range of solutions is built on Android automotive operating systems. Its system can control multiple displays with different aspect ratios at the same time by using a single-on-chip, which is different from other conventional in-vehicle display systems, LG said. - But 24% on this news? - More reason that the KOSPI is moving higher No One Care - But... - Inflation has been above the 2% target for 5 years now - Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Thursday that bringing down inflation in the U.S. remains his top priority, warning that consumer prices are still “much too high.”| - Speaking to CNBC's Kaori Enjoji at the Bank of Japan-IMES Conference, Kashkari said that the U.S. central bank would continue taking a “balanced approach” to its dual mandate of price stability and full employment. - 5 YEARS! ---- What that tells us is that the Fed is totally unable to do anything about inflation .... Are we the only ones that see that? Inside Baseball - From a colegie that will go un-named. --- Let's just say he is someone who knows what they are talking about and runs BIG money ----- This is what he said to me..... - Apparently, oil execs were opining with POTUS in meetings yesterday that oil inventories are at alarmingly low levels and oil prices could soon skyrocket (I might soften that language a bit but they know the oil biz better than me) if SoH does not open soon. - I ran a few numbers on total oil inventories including and excluding the SPR. - Total supplies are 10th percentile vs history (although that includes a period when the SPR ramped from 0 to 600mln barrels in the 1980's). - Today it is 4th percentile if you start from 1990 when the SPR was basically full. - The 4 week net and % draw the last 3 weeks are the largest draws of all time. - And not surprising the 1 week net and % draw of the SPR are also the 2 largest draws of all time the last 2 weeks. Surprised - No.... --- This is another story similar to what we saw a few months ago - Taiwan prosecutors suspect that three individuals smuggled at least one shipment of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China after first exporting them to Japan. - The trio was detained for allegedly falsifying documents related to exports of Super Micro Computer Inc. servers containing advanced Nvidia chips, which the US has barred from sale to China without a license. - Taiwan authorities seized about 50 servers for which they accuse the trio of preparing fraudulent export documents, but at least one shipment had already gone through Taiwan customs and made it to Hong Kong. Under/Over? - Tesla will be somehow folder/merged or taken over by SpaceX in an all stock deal - Tesla market cap is $1.6 Trillion so that will be a tough one to take on as SpaceX is about equal in size. ---- If this happens, when ? Mini Retirement - Is this a THING? - A mini retirement is when you take a planned break from working, usually for a few months to a couple of years, instead of waiting until age 65+ to fully retire. - Tim Feerris popularized this... (4 day workweek dude) Step 1: Work & save aggressively 2–10+ years Build a specific “freedom fund” Step 2: Take time off 3 months to 2 years Travel, recharge, pursue interests, or experiment with new ideas Step 3: Return to work Same career… or pivot to something new Then repeat if desired. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? Announcing the THE CLOSEST TO THE PIN for SALESFORCE (CRM) Winners will be getting great stuff like the new "OFFICIAL" DHUnplugged Shirt! FED AND CRYPTO LIMERICKS See this week's stock picks HERE Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter
A recent landmark study from BlackRock caught David McKnight – he shares what it was all about and why you should care in this new episode of the Power of Zero Show. For decades, Americans were told that if they simply contributed faithfully to their 401(k) and avoided emotional decisions during market downturns, they would have enough money in retirement. According to the BlackRock study, retirees who incorporated guaranteed lifetime income in the form of an annuity into their retirement portfolio experienced an average increase of 22% in potential retirement spending. That number became approximately a 25% increase for lower income retirees! The increase came primarily from giving retirees greater confidence to spend money because a portion of their retirement income was guaranteed for life. David explains that, while 30 or 40 years ago retirees could rely on company pensions that provided predictable monthly income for life, the modern retirement system has shifted enormous responsibility onto the shoulders of ordinary Americans. Employers used to bear the responsibility for generating the income stream and ensuring that retirees did not outlive their money. Today, however, pensions have all but disappeared, and most Americans now rely on 401(k) or other tax-qualified retirement plans. One of the big problems is the fact that such tax-affirmed accounts can help you build wealth, but don't come with instructions on how to make sure your money lasts a full 30-year retirement. The BlackRock study echoes something that David has stressed several times on the show: retirees spend more when at least a portion of their retirement income is guaranteed. David clarifies that when he talks about guaranteed lifetime income, he does not suggest retirees place all of their assets into annuities or eliminate market exposure altogether. David talks about 100% stock allocation and why you can be much more aggressive in your stock market allocation once you create an income floor in retirement. The current status quo of the American fiscal system – and exploding national debt – appears to be painting a picture where future tax rates will be significantly higher than they are today. David is a strong advocate for tax-free investment accounts in retirement. In particular, he points to six different tax-free income streams: Roth IRAs, Roth 401(k)s, Roth conversions, RMDs up to standard deductions, certain types of cash value life insurance as a volatility shield in retirement and, if you can keep your provisional income low enough, your Social Security can be 100% tax-free. David touches upon a strategy that can give you guaranteed tax-free income for life. The old retirement model gave Americans confidence through company pensions. The modern model requires retirees to create their own personal private pension in the form of an annuity. It's important to understand that retirement isn't just about accumulating wealth, but also about creating a stream of lifetime income that's guaranteed to last as long as you do. David concludes by explaining what retirement planning should accomplish beyond merely maximizing account balances. Mentioned in this episode: David's new book: The Secret Order of Millionaires David's national bestselling book: The Guru Gap: How America's Financial Gurus Are Leading You Astray, and How to Get Back on Track Tax-Free Income for Life: A Step-by-Step Plan for a Secure Retirement by David McKnight DavidMcKnight.com DavidMcKnightBooks.com PowerOfZero.com (free video series) @mcknightandco on Twitter @davidcmcknight on Instagram David McKnight on YouTube Get David's Tax-free Tool Kit at taxfreetoolkit.com BlackRock BlackRock's paper Who Benefits From Guaranteed Lifetime Income?
Bitcoin, which has struggled amid a surprise BlackRock sell-off, has dropped under the closely-watched $70,000 per bitcoin level. ~This Episode is Sponsored by OKX~ Trade RLUSD/XRP on OKX + claim the new user offer! Deposit and trade $200 to unlock $100 ➜ https://bit.ly/OKXRP Use code: paulbarron *Terms Apply* Guest: Gareth Soloway Chief Market Strategist of InTheMoneyStocks.com Join Gareth's Stock & Crypto course using our link! ➜ https://www.verifiedinvestingeducation.com/paulbarron 00:10 Sponsor:OKX 01:00 Clemente: Crypto haters are out 02:30 BTC bottom bounce? 04:00 BTC $50K? 06:30 Saylor bottom signal? 08:15 $MSTR analysis 10:00 Ethereum analysis 11:50 $HYPE analysis 12:50 Gareth nibbling on $SOL 14:45 AI bubble endgame 16:30 Is his a supercycle? 19:00 Semicoductors are a problem 19:50 Ed Zitron: SpaceX will be a Massacre 21:30 Tesla analysis 24:30 Should SpaceX be allowed to go public? 24:345 XRP to $1? 26:50 Gold analysis #Crypto #Bitcoin #Ethereum ~Crash Not Over?
Welcome to the Black Rock Podcast, where faith meets real life. Today we're talking about one of our core ministry values: being outward focused. At Black Rock, we believe church is for everyone. That's why we strive to communicate the truth of God's Word in a way that's relatable, understandable, and engaging—especially for people who may be new to faith. As Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians, everything we do should build people up. We want church to be spiritual, rooted in Scripture and empowered by the Holy Spirit; helpful, making a difference in everyday life; and enjoyable, creating an environment where people genuinely want to be. So grab a snack and join us as we explore what it means to be outward focused. Let's chat and chew!
Bitcoin just crashed below $70,000 - falling 3.8% overnight to $69,446 - as $766 million in liquidations cascaded through the leveraged complex and BlackRock's IBIT extended its outflow streak to 10 straight days, with the ETF complex now hemorrhaging $2.4 billion since May 18 alone. Add Michael Saylor's stunning 32 BTC sale (Strategy's first since the FTX collapse in 2022, used to fund STRC dividends), the Fear & Greed Index crashing into "Extreme Fear" at 23, ongoing US-Iran escalation, and growing speculation that Larry Fink is suppressing prices through sustained institutional redemptions — and today's setup looks like the cleanest capitulation we've seen this cycle. We break down what's actually driving the selloff, whether the BlackRock bleed is structural or temporary, what Saylor's "Never Sell" reversal means for the rest of the treasury company space, and what catalysts could stop the bleeding before $65,000 comes into play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most financial advisory firms say they want organic growth. But very few are honest about what it actually takes to create it. In this episode of the Model FA Podcast, David DeCelle is joined by Daniel Gourvitch, President of Mercer Advisors, for a deep conversation on why organic growth in the RIA and wealth management space is so difficult, what firms often misunderstand about growth, and why client impact has to come before business metrics. Daniel shares his journey from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock to Mercer Advisors, and explains how Mercer built a growth engine rooted in fiduciary advice, integrated planning, client experience, and long-term consistency. The conversation explores why AUM can be a misleading growth metric, why many firms mistake market appreciation for actual growth, and why organic growth is not a single activity. It is the outcome of many connected systems working together over time. David and Daniel also discuss referrals, client trust, advisor specialization, the difference between serving clients and finding new families, and why firms need to think structurally about growth instead of chasing disconnected marketing tactics. In This Episode ✅ Why organic growth is an outcome, not an activity ✅ How Mercer Advisors thinks about serving families, not just growing AUM ✅ Why many advisory firms believe they are growing when they may only be benefiting from market growth ✅ The difference between AUM growth and true revenue growth ✅ Why firms struggle to build repeatable organic growth systems ✅ How client experience drives referrals and long-term firm health ✅ Why growth requires patience, consistency, and connected execution ✅ How Mercer separates client service and client development roles ✅ Why advisor personality matters when building a growth model ✅ How Model FA's Advisor DNA framework fits into the organic growth conversation If you are a financial advisor, RIA founder, or wealth management leader trying to grow beyond market performance, referrals by accident, or M&A alone, this episode will challenge how you think about organic growth. #FinancialAdvisor #OrganicGrowth #RIAGrowth #WealthManagement #AdvisorMarketing #ModelFAPodcast #MercerAdvisors Connect with Daniel: Email: dgourvitch@merceradvisors.com Website: https://www.merceradvisors.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gourvitch-59562b5/ About the Model FA Podcast The Model FA podcast is a show for fiduciary financial advisors. In each episode, our host David DeCelle sits down with industry experts, strategic thinkers, and advisors to explore what it takes to build a successful practice — and have an abundant life in the process. We believe in continuous learning, tactical advice, and strategies that work — no "gotchas" or BS. Join us to hear stories from successful financial advisors, get actionable ideas from experts, and re-discover your drive to build the practice of your dreams. Did you like this conversation? Then leave us a rating and a review in whatever podcast player you use. We would love your feedback, and your ratings help us reach more advisors with ideas for growing their practices, attracting great clients, and achieving a better quality of life. While you are there, feel free to share your ideas about future podcast guests or topics you'd love to see covered. Our Team: President of Model FA, David DeCelle If you like this podcast, you will love our community! Join the Model FA Community on Facebook to connect with like-minded advisors and share the day-to-day challenges and wins of running a growing financial services firm.
On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys at the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by CoinDesk Indices President Dave LaValle to unpack a $2.97 billion outflow streak from Bitcoin ETFs and what it really means for institutional adoption.Bloomberg Intelligence Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas joins the show to explain why the recent outflows may be more noise than signal, share his bullish outlook on the fast-rising HYPE ETFs, and discuss how firms like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock are expanding access to Bitcoin through new investment products. In this week's 10X segment, LaValle breaks down the fundamentals of margin trading, explaining what separates professional traders from retail investors when it comes to managing leverage, risk, and conviction. Plus, Stellar Development Foundation CEO and Executive Director Denelle Dixon discusses DTCC's decision to select Stellar as the first public blockchain connected to its upcoming tokenized securities settlement platform, and what it means for the future of tokenization and institutional blockchain adoption. - This episode of Public Keys is brought to you by Kraken. For more: https://pro.kraken.com/ - Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys 00:54 Jamie Dimon vs Brian Armstrong on Stablecoin Yields 03:21 Bitcoin ETFs Shed $2.97B in Outflows 05:50 BTC ETFs Post Worst Week Since January 06:50 Grayscale Amends HYPE ETF Filing 08:36 Bloomberg Intelligence's Eric Balchunas Joins Public Keys 09:39 Why BTC ETF Outflows Are Just 'Noise' 13:00 Wall Street's New BTC Products: Goldman, Morgan Stanley, iShares 15:33 HYPE Is the 'Hansel from Zoolander' of Crypto ETFs 17:57 Will SpaceX ETFs Pull Capital from Crypto? 20:42 10X: What Separates Pro Traders from Retail 22:25 Knowing Your 'Out': The Biggest Mistake in Margin Trading 25:06 Stellar Development Foundation's Denelle Dixon on the DTCC Tokenization Deal 26:14 Stellar Hits $3B in Tokenized Assets in Five Months 28:46 Can Blockchains Handle DTCC-Level Volume? 30:21 Digital Twins and the Issuer-Led Tokenization Question 31:50 Will One Blockchain Win the RWA Race? - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.
Token consumption grew 17 times last year — not 17%, 17 times. So why are some investors still underexposed to the biggest structural shift in a generation? Motley Fool Contributing Analyst Rachel Warren talks with Jay Jacobs, US Head of Equity ETFs at BlackRock, about the firm's 2026 Thematic Outlook: why the AI infrastructure boom is still in its infancy, how thematic ETFs can give retail investors more precise exposure than traditional sector funds, and what the rise of agentic AI, physical robotics, and tokenization means for your portfolio. Host: Rachel Warren Guest: Jay Jacobs Producers: Bart Shannon, Lauren Budabin Disclosure: Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, “TMF”) do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement.We're committed to transparency: All personal opinions in advertisements from Fools are their own. The product advertised in this episode was loaned to TMF and was returned after a test period or the product advertised in this episode was purchased by TMF. Advertiser has paid for the sponsorship of this episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Are you tired of the "fear porn" industry telling you that everything is collapsing without offering a single solution? In this powerful episode of the Awakening Podcast, we welcome back Peter Wilson, a leading voice in the sovereignty movement and organizer of the iconic "Checkmate the Matrix" event. Peter shares the incredible success of his recent three-day summit in Newcastle, where hundreds gathered to learn practical, actionable steps for reclaiming their health, finances, and energy. We dive deep into the systemic corruption behind gas and electricity prices in Ireland and the UK, exposing the roles of companies like Centrica, BlackRock, and Vanguard. Peter doesn't just point out the problems; he provides the blueprint for creating your own power, cleansing your own water, and moving toward decentralized financial platforms. If you're ready to stop waiting for a "knight in shining armor" and start becoming the hero of your own story, this episode is for you. ⏱️Timestamps Timestamp Topic Description 0:00 Welcome & Introduction to Peter Wilson 0:47 The "Checkmate the Matrix" Event: A three-day success in Newcastle 2:13 Why Newcastle? The iconic venue and safe community space 3:23 Moving Beyond "Fear Porn": Focusing on solutions, not moaning 4:12 Sovereignty in Practice: Food, health, and financial independence 5:01 The "Plastic Bag" Solution: Why dropping out of the system isn't the answer 6:12 The "Waiting to be Saved" Trap: Why you are your own rescuer 7:43 The Biscuit Factory: A unique venue for a unique movement 9:17 Audio-Visual Evolution: Improving the streaming experience for next year 11:04 The Corruption of Energy: Exposing the sale of Board Gáis to Centrica 12:54 BlackRock & Vanguard: The hidden hands behind global energy profits 14:35 The Irish Oil & Gas Scandal: How royalties were scrapped for "golden handshakes" 16:13 Comparing Ireland to Norway: A masterclass in national resource mismanagement 25:57 Wind Energy Innovation: The "Tin of Beans" silent turbine 27:11 Micro-Inverters & Solar Power: Plugging directly into your home grid 29:03 The Ed Miliband "Paperwork" Delay: Legal vs. safe energy solutions 30:14 Apartment Solar: How to collect energy from a balcony 36:31 Cleaning Solar Panels: Improving efficiency and potential business ideas 37:08 The Water Cooling Hack: How to make solar panels perform better in heat 41:48 Sovereign AI: Using technology to build independent income streams 54:39 Direct Democracy & Accountability: Learning from international models 56:51 "A Real Collusion": Using fiction to expose political truth 65:21 The Organ Donation Crisis: A call for systemic reform 87:04 Outro: RoyCoughlan.com, sponsorship, and the Sovereign AI Blueprint 88:02 Special Announcement: Your Sovereign AI Income Blueprint training
A video recently went viral of Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, calling for Americans to invest their retirement savings and pension funds into AI data centers. Jimmy and Americans' Comedian Kurt Metzger argue that once investment becomes "mandatory," choice is removed and your 401(k) becomes collateral repurposed to support the globalist agenda—with risk and loss staying with you while upside and control go to the billionaires building the infrastructure. Catherine Austin Fitts explains that most people don't actually own their 401(k)s; they hold a "claim" through the DTCC, meaning their savings can be reallocated without their consent into centralized AI and energy grids. The two hosts assert that the real purpose of massive centralized AI data centers is not productivity but control—specifically to enable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) that will monitor every transaction in real time, with universal basic income (UBI) being the mechanism to force people to accept microchips under their skin. Jimmy concludes that the "race against China" is a psyop to get the public to comply without asking questions, and that the ICE prisons being built are not for immigrants but for Americans who eventually resist this takeover. Plus segments on Tucker Carlson railing against the predatory credit card industry, an Israeli released after being arrested for running an illicit biolab in Las Vegas and how Republicans proved that the "Force the Vote" strategy would work. Also featuring Stef Zamorano and Briahna Joy Gray!