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Cita de: el malo en Hoy a las 10:52:52Cita de: senslev en Hoy a las 10:15:14Fuck.https://x.com/QTRResearch/status/1965436934664139116Citareveryone keeps asking me what my macro take is. so here it is once and for all. here's how i see the next 6-18 months. the BLS revisions confirm the economy is officially grinding to a halt. soon, it will be on life support as far as discretionary spending. we are probably at inning 2 of 9 of a real recession and don't know it yet. three years of positive real rates have finally had the effect on the economy everyone thought they would years ago, but there was 1) the usual 12-18 month lag from monetary policy to the economy and 2) tons of excess liquidity from covid that delayed the inevitable.now, it looks like we have really stepped in shit. credit card delinquencies are rising, home sales are cooling, private equity marks and commercial real estate marks are probably all about 20-40% too high on whatever books they're on. auto loan delinquencies are next. you've had analysis showing securitized auto loans are being dealt to related parties because there's no bid, and that aaa-rated commercial real estate is now under distress. decades-long cre firms – like one recently in miami – are filing for bankruptcy. oh, and the banks that carry a lot of these loans and securitized loans also have treasuries on their books that are trading far lower than when they were bought, with rates at 0%, a la silicon valley bank.you also now have the re-introduction of paying off student loans, which adds a whole new quick chunk of debt for many already distressed borrowers/americans. cost of capital is already the highest it's been in decades and now this group – already probably faced with cutting spending – has to make even quicker, faster moves about how they are going to adapt their budget. many of these people are simply stuck, and these loans – including many of their other ones – will default. but the one thing that's for sure is they don't have cash to spend anymore.at the same time, the u.s. stock market is at its all-time high valuation when combining a number of key metrics. this move higher has been driven by 7 companies that are disproportionately weighted far heavier in indexes than they should be. they get an incessant bid from the passive bid, which buys them disproportionately regardless of valuation. that bid will dry up as jobs do and as de-leveraging happens. there are about $50t in funds in these types of retirement vehicles and most funds don't have the cash to cover a tiny % of that in redemptions. this decades-long incessant bid could turn into a seller at some point, which would be catastrophic for markets.as the "e" in p/e stops growing, valuations will get even more aggressive and the market will – at the first point in decades people actually stop to say "where could the mean reversion be in the s&p?" – blow out even further to all-time highs.then, sitting atop the markets is $4 trillion in total speculation, known as the crypto market. this market routinely allows 50-100x leverage and theoretically has no floor. there is no cash flow or balance sheet to hold it up and make it "deep value." it's literally just numbers on paper. btc and eth have some purpose and use case, which may give them a slight floor, but we have no idea how much lower that could even be. there's at least imo $2 trillion in outright detritus in crypto that is worth $0. there is no "dip buying" that makes sense for many of these tokens, in other words.the situation begets a sharp deleveraging. except the fed stepping in to quickly do qe will 1) fail to take effect immediately due to the same aforementioned lag and 2) send already high inflation at 2.8% potentially much higher. the fed needs to work the labor market collapse brake with the inflation gas at the same time. and honestly, rate cuts aren't the answer right now. but they don't care – they'd rather have inflation. so they will print, and our bond market will officially crack, and people will realize inflation is never leaving. no one wants long-dated paper, and the u.s. is a much larger credit risk than 4% on the 10y. the fed will then do yield curve control and sound money assets will explode higher (along with financial assets and anything else that benefits from tons of money printing).the brute force destruction from the inflation that follows will be talked about only as second fiddle to praising the fed for doing a great job bailing out the economy again. powell will get praise, stocks will move higher, and the wealth gap between the top 10% and the rest of the country will widen the fastest in history. all the while, people in financial media will tell you everything's fine because the market hasn't collapsed totally in nominal terms. the bottom 50% of the country won't be able to afford a box of cereal, and guys in suits will be giving central bankers the nobel prize in 5 years for "fixing" things. it's so nefarious because the consequences won't be immediately obvious. the market will come back after the fed does qe, but the real pain will be in inflation's effect on the middle class. it'll be clear in the price of gold, maybe bitcoin, and maybe real estate and stocks.people who have saved cash will be wiped out. and it'll happen under cloak of darkness in the background instead of as a front-page headline, because most people don't understand it – which is what makes it that much more nefarious. honestly, this one feels like end-of-empire stuff. keep your head on a swivel. i hope i'm wrong.Si esto se cumple va a ser curioso lo que viene en Europa en un contexto europeo de recortes del Estado del Bienestar y aumento del gasto y la deuda.Aunque en líneas generales estoy de acuerdo, creo que no se ha tenido en cuenta el impacto de la GENIUS act en el tema cripto y su impacto colateral en la deuda pública americana. Las cosas pueden salir como dice el artículo, o las stablecoins pueden convertirse en un vehículo OBLIGATORIO para el comercio de ciertos servicios (o incluso commodities) desplazando al USD, pero para acceder a esas stablecoins hay que comprar títulos americanos. Esa sería la cuadratura del círculo y la enésima patada adelante. Ahí si veríamos las criptos y el oro a niveles estratosféricos (aunque fuera temporalmente).Me explico: imaginemos que US dice que a partir de ahora sólo te vende su gas licuado (ese que ya no podemos comprarle a Rusia) en LNG coins, y que para tener LNG coins (emitidas por la sólida, neutral y nada sospechosa entidad JPMorgan -recordemos que las sc son PRIVADAS-) sólo se aceptan títulos de deuda pública americana con un valor 1-1 (cada USD de deuda se corresponde con 1 USD de LNG coin). ¿Qué les impide hacer esto [...]¿Que no tienen suficientemente gas?------¿No son precisamente las criptos las que van a comprar deuda? Tú como mucho comprarías las SCs. [Antes de cambiarlas por ese gas...]Se verá.
Cita de: senslev en Hoy a las 10:15:14Fuck.https://x.com/QTRResearch/status/1965436934664139116Citareveryone keeps asking me what my macro take is. so here it is once and for all. here's how i see the next 6-18 months. the BLS revisions confirm the economy is officially grinding to a halt. soon, it will be on life support as far as discretionary spending. we are probably at inning 2 of 9 of a real recession and don't know it yet. three years of positive real rates have finally had the effect on the economy everyone thought they would years ago, but there was 1) the usual 12-18 month lag from monetary policy to the economy and 2) tons of excess liquidity from covid that delayed the inevitable.now, it looks like we have really stepped in shit. credit card delinquencies are rising, home sales are cooling, private equity marks and commercial real estate marks are probably all about 20-40% too high on whatever books they're on. auto loan delinquencies are next. you've had analysis showing securitized auto loans are being dealt to related parties because there's no bid, and that aaa-rated commercial real estate is now under distress. decades-long cre firms – like one recently in miami – are filing for bankruptcy. oh, and the banks that carry a lot of these loans and securitized loans also have treasuries on their books that are trading far lower than when they were bought, with rates at 0%, a la silicon valley bank.you also now have the re-introduction of paying off student loans, which adds a whole new quick chunk of debt for many already distressed borrowers/americans. cost of capital is already the highest it's been in decades and now this group – already probably faced with cutting spending – has to make even quicker, faster moves about how they are going to adapt their budget. many of these people are simply stuck, and these loans – including many of their other ones – will default. but the one thing that's for sure is they don't have cash to spend anymore.at the same time, the u.s. stock market is at its all-time high valuation when combining a number of key metrics. this move higher has been driven by 7 companies that are disproportionately weighted far heavier in indexes than they should be. they get an incessant bid from the passive bid, which buys them disproportionately regardless of valuation. that bid will dry up as jobs do and as de-leveraging happens. there are about $50t in funds in these types of retirement vehicles and most funds don't have the cash to cover a tiny % of that in redemptions. this decades-long incessant bid could turn into a seller at some point, which would be catastrophic for markets.as the "e" in p/e stops growing, valuations will get even more aggressive and the market will – at the first point in decades people actually stop to say "where could the mean reversion be in the s&p?" – blow out even further to all-time highs.then, sitting atop the markets is $4 trillion in total speculation, known as the crypto market. this market routinely allows 50-100x leverage and theoretically has no floor. there is no cash flow or balance sheet to hold it up and make it "deep value." it's literally just numbers on paper. btc and eth have some purpose and use case, which may give them a slight floor, but we have no idea how much lower that could even be. there's at least imo $2 trillion in outright detritus in crypto that is worth $0. there is no "dip buying" that makes sense for many of these tokens, in other words.the situation begets a sharp deleveraging. except the fed stepping in to quickly do qe will 1) fail to take effect immediately due to the same aforementioned lag and 2) send already high inflation at 2.8% potentially much higher. the fed needs to work the labor market collapse brake with the inflation gas at the same time. and honestly, rate cuts aren't the answer right now. but they don't care – they'd rather have inflation. so they will print, and our bond market will officially crack, and people will realize inflation is never leaving. no one wants long-dated paper, and the u.s. is a much larger credit risk than 4% on the 10y. the fed will then do yield curve control and sound money assets will explode higher (along with financial assets and anything else that benefits from tons of money printing).the brute force destruction from the inflation that follows will be talked about only as second fiddle to praising the fed for doing a great job bailing out the economy again. powell will get praise, stocks will move higher, and the wealth gap between the top 10% and the rest of the country will widen the fastest in history. all the while, people in financial media will tell you everything's fine because the market hasn't collapsed totally in nominal terms. the bottom 50% of the country won't be able to afford a box of cereal, and guys in suits will be giving central bankers the nobel prize in 5 years for "fixing" things. it's so nefarious because the consequences won't be immediately obvious. the market will come back after the fed does qe, but the real pain will be in inflation's effect on the middle class. it'll be clear in the price of gold, maybe bitcoin, and maybe real estate and stocks.people who have saved cash will be wiped out. and it'll happen under cloak of darkness in the background instead of as a front-page headline, because most people don't understand it – which is what makes it that much more nefarious. honestly, this one feels like end-of-empire stuff. keep your head on a swivel. i hope i'm wrong.Si esto se cumple va a ser curioso lo que viene en Europa en un contexto europeo de recortes del Estado del Bienestar y aumento del gasto y la deuda.Aunque en líneas generales estoy de acuerdo, creo que no se ha tenido en cuenta el impacto de la GENIUS act en el tema cripto y su impacto colateral en la deuda pública americana. Las cosas pueden salir como dice el artículo, o las stablecoins pueden convertirse en un vehículo OBLIGATORIO para el comercio de ciertos servicios (o incluso commodities) desplazando al USD, pero para acceder a esas stablecoins hay que comprar títulos americanos. Esa sería la cuadratura del círculo y la enésima patada adelante. Ahí si veríamos las criptos y el oro a niveles estratosféricos (aunque fuera temporalmente).Me explico: imaginemos que US dice que a partir de ahora sólo te vende su gas licuado (ese que ya no podemos comprarle a Rusia) en LNG coins, y que para tener LNG coins (emitidas por la sólida, neutral y nada sospechosa entidad JPMorgan -recordemos que las sc son PRIVADAS-) sólo se aceptan títulos de deuda pública americana con un valor 1-1 (cada USD de deuda se corresponde con 1 USD de LNG coin). ¿Qué les impide hacer esto [...]
Fuck.https://x.com/QTRResearch/status/1965436934664139116Citareveryone keeps asking me what my macro take is. so here it is once and for all. here's how i see the next 6-18 months. the BLS revisions confirm the economy is officially grinding to a halt. soon, it will be on life support as far as discretionary spending. we are probably at inning 2 of 9 of a real recession and don't know it yet. three years of positive real rates have finally had the effect on the economy everyone thought they would years ago, but there was 1) the usual 12-18 month lag from monetary policy to the economy and 2) tons of excess liquidity from covid that delayed the inevitable.now, it looks like we have really stepped in shit. credit card delinquencies are rising, home sales are cooling, private equity marks and commercial real estate marks are probably all about 20-40% too high on whatever books they're on. auto loan delinquencies are next. you've had analysis showing securitized auto loans are being dealt to related parties because there's no bid, and that aaa-rated commercial real estate is now under distress. decades-long cre firms – like one recently in miami – are filing for bankruptcy. oh, and the banks that carry a lot of these loans and securitized loans also have treasuries on their books that are trading far lower than when they were bought, with rates at 0%, a la silicon valley bank.you also now have the re-introduction of paying off student loans, which adds a whole new quick chunk of debt for many already distressed borrowers/americans. cost of capital is already the highest it's been in decades and now this group – already probably faced with cutting spending – has to make even quicker, faster moves about how they are going to adapt their budget. many of these people are simply stuck, and these loans – including many of their other ones – will default. but the one thing that's for sure is they don't have cash to spend anymore.at the same time, the u.s. stock market is at its all-time high valuation when combining a number of key metrics. this move higher has been driven by 7 companies that are disproportionately weighted far heavier in indexes than they should be. they get an incessant bid from the passive bid, which buys them disproportionately regardless of valuation. that bid will dry up as jobs do and as de-leveraging happens. there are about $50t in funds in these types of retirement vehicles and most funds don't have the cash to cover a tiny % of that in redemptions. this decades-long incessant bid could turn into a seller at some point, which would be catastrophic for markets.as the "e" in p/e stops growing, valuations will get even more aggressive and the market will – at the first point in decades people actually stop to say "where could the mean reversion be in the s&p?" – blow out even further to all-time highs.then, sitting atop the markets is $4 trillion in total speculation, known as the crypto market. this market routinely allows 50-100x leverage and theoretically has no floor. there is no cash flow or balance sheet to hold it up and make it "deep value." it's literally just numbers on paper. btc and eth have some purpose and use case, which may give them a slight floor, but we have no idea how much lower that could even be. there's at least imo $2 trillion in outright detritus in crypto that is worth $0. there is no "dip buying" that makes sense for many of these tokens, in other words.the situation begets a sharp deleveraging. except the fed stepping in to quickly do qe will 1) fail to take effect immediately due to the same aforementioned lag and 2) send already high inflation at 2.8% potentially much higher. the fed needs to work the labor market collapse brake with the inflation gas at the same time. and honestly, rate cuts aren't the answer right now. but they don't care – they'd rather have inflation. so they will print, and our bond market will officially crack, and people will realize inflation is never leaving. no one wants long-dated paper, and the u.s. is a much larger credit risk than 4% on the 10y. the fed will then do yield curve control and sound money assets will explode higher (along with financial assets and anything else that benefits from tons of money printing).the brute force destruction from the inflation that follows will be talked about only as second fiddle to praising the fed for doing a great job bailing out the economy again. powell will get praise, stocks will move higher, and the wealth gap between the top 10% and the rest of the country will widen the fastest in history. all the while, people in financial media will tell you everything's fine because the market hasn't collapsed totally in nominal terms. the bottom 50% of the country won't be able to afford a box of cereal, and guys in suits will be giving central bankers the nobel prize in 5 years for "fixing" things. it's so nefarious because the consequences won't be immediately obvious. the market will come back after the fed does qe, but the real pain will be in inflation's effect on the middle class. it'll be clear in the price of gold, maybe bitcoin, and maybe real estate and stocks.people who have saved cash will be wiped out. and it'll happen under cloak of darkness in the background instead of as a front-page headline, because most people don't understand it – which is what makes it that much more nefarious. honestly, this one feels like end-of-empire stuff. keep your head on a swivel. i hope i'm wrong.
everyone keeps asking me what my macro take is. so here it is once and for all. here's how i see the next 6-18 months. the BLS revisions confirm the economy is officially grinding to a halt. soon, it will be on life support as far as discretionary spending. we are probably at inning 2 of 9 of a real recession and don't know it yet. three years of positive real rates have finally had the effect on the economy everyone thought they would years ago, but there was 1) the usual 12-18 month lag from monetary policy to the economy and 2) tons of excess liquidity from covid that delayed the inevitable.now, it looks like we have really stepped in shit. credit card delinquencies are rising, home sales are cooling, private equity marks and commercial real estate marks are probably all about 20-40% too high on whatever books they're on. auto loan delinquencies are next. you've had analysis showing securitized auto loans are being dealt to related parties because there's no bid, and that aaa-rated commercial real estate is now under distress. decades-long cre firms – like one recently in miami – are filing for bankruptcy. oh, and the banks that carry a lot of these loans and securitized loans also have treasuries on their books that are trading far lower than when they were bought, with rates at 0%, a la silicon valley bank.you also now have the re-introduction of paying off student loans, which adds a whole new quick chunk of debt for many already distressed borrowers/americans. cost of capital is already the highest it's been in decades and now this group – already probably faced with cutting spending – has to make even quicker, faster moves about how they are going to adapt their budget. many of these people are simply stuck, and these loans – including many of their other ones – will default. but the one thing that's for sure is they don't have cash to spend anymore.at the same time, the u.s. stock market is at its all-time high valuation when combining a number of key metrics. this move higher has been driven by 7 companies that are disproportionately weighted far heavier in indexes than they should be. they get an incessant bid from the passive bid, which buys them disproportionately regardless of valuation. that bid will dry up as jobs do and as de-leveraging happens. there are about $50t in funds in these types of retirement vehicles and most funds don't have the cash to cover a tiny % of that in redemptions. this decades-long incessant bid could turn into a seller at some point, which would be catastrophic for markets.as the "e" in p/e stops growing, valuations will get even more aggressive and the market will – at the first point in decades people actually stop to say "where could the mean reversion be in the s&p?" – blow out even further to all-time highs.then, sitting atop the markets is $4 trillion in total speculation, known as the crypto market. this market routinely allows 50-100x leverage and theoretically has no floor. there is no cash flow or balance sheet to hold it up and make it "deep value." it's literally just numbers on paper. btc and eth have some purpose and use case, which may give them a slight floor, but we have no idea how much lower that could even be. there's at least imo $2 trillion in outright detritus in crypto that is worth $0. there is no "dip buying" that makes sense for many of these tokens, in other words.the situation begets a sharp deleveraging. except the fed stepping in to quickly do qe will 1) fail to take effect immediately due to the same aforementioned lag and 2) send already high inflation at 2.8% potentially much higher. the fed needs to work the labor market collapse brake with the inflation gas at the same time. and honestly, rate cuts aren't the answer right now. but they don't care – they'd rather have inflation. so they will print, and our bond market will officially crack, and people will realize inflation is never leaving. no one wants long-dated paper, and the u.s. is a much larger credit risk than 4% on the 10y. the fed will then do yield curve control and sound money assets will explode higher (along with financial assets and anything else that benefits from tons of money printing).the brute force destruction from the inflation that follows will be talked about only as second fiddle to praising the fed for doing a great job bailing out the economy again. powell will get praise, stocks will move higher, and the wealth gap between the top 10% and the rest of the country will widen the fastest in history. all the while, people in financial media will tell you everything's fine because the market hasn't collapsed totally in nominal terms. the bottom 50% of the country won't be able to afford a box of cereal, and guys in suits will be giving central bankers the nobel prize in 5 years for "fixing" things. it's so nefarious because the consequences won't be immediately obvious. the market will come back after the fed does qe, but the real pain will be in inflation's effect on the middle class. it'll be clear in the price of gold, maybe bitcoin, and maybe real estate and stocks.people who have saved cash will be wiped out. and it'll happen under cloak of darkness in the background instead of as a front-page headline, because most people don't understand it – which is what makes it that much more nefarious. honestly, this one feels like end-of-empire stuff. keep your head on a swivel. i hope i'm wrong.
Llevamos unas semanas de muchos titulares que relacionan IA, inversiones de cantidades obscenas y energía, esa gran olvidada. Por un lado hay que ser lo más energéticamente eficiente posible pero por el otro nos gastamos millonadas en pedirle a las IAs que conviertan mi foto en un personaje de los Simpsons.La IA me dice que transformar mi foto cuesta el equivalente energético a cargar un smartphone y que usa unos 2 litros de agua para enfriar el hardware asociado. La misma IA me dice que generar 1000 imágenes produce el mismo CO2 que conducir 4.1 millas. Por cosas como esta se que toda esta nueva ecología y el CO2 y spm es una estafa, porque si de verdad hubiera una emergencia climática el uso de la IA se habría restringido a campos donde realmente aporta valor, y no se hubera puesto en manos todos los Pepito Perez del mundo para que se líen a consumir agua y energía como si no hubiera mañana. El punto que les quería comentar es que estas inversiones billonarias podrían tener un efecto muy curioso. ¿Se imaginan que Google o Meta den con la fusión nuclear o cualquier otro Santo Grial energético como efecto colateral de necesitar energía barata para sus centros de datos? O por el lado negativo, ¿se imaginan que se les permita a empresas privadas construir y controlar de manera autónoma centrales nucleares? ¿qué podría salir mal?La siguiente patada adelante podría venir por ahí. O puede que desencadene una verdadera revolución. Quién sabe como acabará todo esto con esas cantidades mareantes de dinero que leemos todos los días. Lo que tengo claro es que el dinero y el factor trabajo tampoco no valen absolutamente nada. Sálvese quién pueda.
Cita de: tomasjos en Hoy a las 15:03:38Más sobre la burbuja de la IA. Ahora lo confirma el presidente de OpenAI. De todos modos pareciera que están tratando de ponerse la venda tras la herida o neutralizar los efectos de la burbuja por el hecho de reconocerla El presidente de OpenAI lo tiene claro: estamos en una burbuja de IA, pero eso no es el fin del mundo https://share.google/0UqtS1kfTdTYEMIyvEl presidente de OpenAI lo tiene claro: estamos en una burbuja de IA, pero eso no es el fin del mundoBret Taylor compara la burbuja de la inteligencia artificial con la de las "puntocom" que se produjo a finales de los 90Qué es la teoría de la "Internet muerta" y por qué Sam Altman, CEO de OpenAI, cree que podría ser realSi la industria de la IA entra en crisis, podría destruir la economía del planetaAl hablar de la inteligencia artificial, la conversación a menudo se divide en dos: los optimistas que creen que la IA cambiará el mundo para bien, y los pesimistas que ven una burbuja a punto de estallar. Pero, ¿y si ambos tuvieran razón? Esa es la opinión de Bret Taylor, presidente de la junta directiva de OpenAI y CEO de la startup Sierra.En una entrevista reciente, a Taylor se le preguntó si estaba de acuerdo con la predicción del CEO de OpenAI, Sam Altman, de que "alguien va a perder una cantidad fenomenal de dinero en IA". La respuesta de Taylor fue contundente: cree que, efectivamente, estamos en una burbuja de IA.Sin embargo, a diferencia de lo que podríamos esperar, no parece preocupado. Para Taylor, "es cierto que la IA transformará la economía" y "creará enormes cantidades de valor económico en el futuro". Pero también es cierto que "estamos en una burbuja y mucha gente perderá mucho dinero". Según él, hay un "precedente histórico" en el que ambas cosas han sido verdad al mismo tiempo.La burbuja de la IA es como la burbuja "punto-com"Para explicar su punto de vista, Taylor comparó el panorama actual de la IA con la burbuja "punto-com" de finales de los años 90. En aquel momento, muchas compañías fracasaron cuando la burbuja estalló. No obstante, Taylor argumenta que "toda la gente en 1999 tenía algo de razón", ya que, aunque muchas empresas cayeron, el internet acabó por crear un enorme valor económico.Esta perspectiva nos da una visión más matizada sobre el auge de la IA. No se trata de un todo o nada, sino de un proceso natural en el que, a pesar de las inevitables pérdidas, la tecnología subyacente tiene el potencial de cambiar el mundo de forma duradera.La visión de Taylor choca con la de otros expertos. El economista Torsten Slok advirtió recientemente sobre la gravedad de la burbuja de la IA, asegurando que se trataba de una aun más exagerada que la de las puntocom. Hace solo unas semanas, un estudio también aseguraba que, si la industria de la IA entraba en crisis, tendría la capacidad de destruir la economía del planeta.Hay que recordar algunas cosas, sobre todo pensando en los legos en informática.Internet en sí misma no fue una novedad en los 90 del siglo pasado. La tecnología en sí ya existía, mejoró hasta el punto de hacerse accesible para el gran público.Sí marcó una diferencia el cambiar el correo físico por el digital, por ejemplo. Y el chat, y todo el copón que vino. Pero todo eso, insisto, estaba basado en una tecnología que ya existía mucho antes y que simplemente maduró y se hizo rentable como para abrirla al gran público.La burbuja de las puntocom fue una exageración de perspectivas y posibilidades reales. La burbuja de la IA es simplemente una fumada. No hay prácticamente nada real en el fondo.¿Que si su explosión va a ser dolorosa? Tal vez sí tal vez no. Pero si es el caso, ya es inevitable. Y el tortazo que implicaría desacreditaría a más de un iluminado. El personal se volvería muy cauteloso para una buena temporada.
Más sobre la burbuja de la IA. Ahora lo confirma el presidente de OpenAI. De todos modos pareciera que están tratando de ponerse la venda tras la herida o neutralizar los efectos de la burbuja por el hecho de reconocerla El presidente de OpenAI lo tiene claro: estamos en una burbuja de IA, pero eso no es el fin del mundo https://share.google/0UqtS1kfTdTYEMIyvEl presidente de OpenAI lo tiene claro: estamos en una burbuja de IA, pero eso no es el fin del mundoBret Taylor compara la burbuja de la inteligencia artificial con la de las "puntocom" que se produjo a finales de los 90Qué es la teoría de la "Internet muerta" y por qué Sam Altman, CEO de OpenAI, cree que podría ser realSi la industria de la IA entra en crisis, podría destruir la economía del planetaAl hablar de la inteligencia artificial, la conversación a menudo se divide en dos: los optimistas que creen que la IA cambiará el mundo para bien, y los pesimistas que ven una burbuja a punto de estallar. Pero, ¿y si ambos tuvieran razón? Esa es la opinión de Bret Taylor, presidente de la junta directiva de OpenAI y CEO de la startup Sierra.En una entrevista reciente, a Taylor se le preguntó si estaba de acuerdo con la predicción del CEO de OpenAI, Sam Altman, de que "alguien va a perder una cantidad fenomenal de dinero en IA". La respuesta de Taylor fue contundente: cree que, efectivamente, estamos en una burbuja de IA.Sin embargo, a diferencia de lo que podríamos esperar, no parece preocupado. Para Taylor, "es cierto que la IA transformará la economía" y "creará enormes cantidades de valor económico en el futuro". Pero también es cierto que "estamos en una burbuja y mucha gente perderá mucho dinero". Según él, hay un "precedente histórico" en el que ambas cosas han sido verdad al mismo tiempo.La burbuja de la IA es como la burbuja "punto-com"Para explicar su punto de vista, Taylor comparó el panorama actual de la IA con la burbuja "punto-com" de finales de los años 90. En aquel momento, muchas compañías fracasaron cuando la burbuja estalló. No obstante, Taylor argumenta que "toda la gente en 1999 tenía algo de razón", ya que, aunque muchas empresas cayeron, el internet acabó por crear un enorme valor económico.Esta perspectiva nos da una visión más matizada sobre el auge de la IA. No se trata de un todo o nada, sino de un proceso natural en el que, a pesar de las inevitables pérdidas, la tecnología subyacente tiene el potencial de cambiar el mundo de forma duradera.La visión de Taylor choca con la de otros expertos. El economista Torsten Slok advirtió recientemente sobre la gravedad de la burbuja de la IA, asegurando que se trataba de una aun más exagerada que la de las puntocom. Hace solo unas semanas, un estudio también aseguraba que, si la industria de la IA entraba en crisis, tendría la capacidad de destruir la economía del planeta.
Cita de: sudden and sharp en Hoy a las 13:00:56Cita de: el malo en Hoy a las 10:52:52Cita de: senslev en Hoy a las 10:15:14Fuck.https://x.com/QTRResearch/status/1965436934664139116Citareveryone keeps asking me what my macro take is. so here it is once and for all. here's how i see the next 6-18 months. the BLS revisions confirm the economy is officially grinding to a halt. soon, it will be on life support as far as discretionary spending. we are probably at inning 2 of 9 of a real recession and don't know it yet. three years of positive real rates have finally had the effect on the economy everyone thought they would years ago, but there was 1) the usual 12-18 month lag from monetary policy to the economy and 2) tons of excess liquidity from covid that delayed the inevitable.now, it looks like we have really stepped in shit. credit card delinquencies are rising, home sales are cooling, private equity marks and commercial real estate marks are probably all about 20-40% too high on whatever books they're on. auto loan delinquencies are next. you've had analysis showing securitized auto loans are being dealt to related parties because there's no bid, and that aaa-rated commercial real estate is now under distress. decades-long cre firms – like one recently in miami – are filing for bankruptcy. oh, and the banks that carry a lot of these loans and securitized loans also have treasuries on their books that are trading far lower than when they were bought, with rates at 0%, a la silicon valley bank.you also now have the re-introduction of paying off student loans, which adds a whole new quick chunk of debt for many already distressed borrowers/americans. cost of capital is already the highest it's been in decades and now this group – already probably faced with cutting spending – has to make even quicker, faster moves about how they are going to adapt their budget. many of these people are simply stuck, and these loans – including many of their other ones – will default. but the one thing that's for sure is they don't have cash to spend anymore.at the same time, the u.s. stock market is at its all-time high valuation when combining a number of key metrics. this move higher has been driven by 7 companies that are disproportionately weighted far heavier in indexes than they should be. they get an incessant bid from the passive bid, which buys them disproportionately regardless of valuation. that bid will dry up as jobs do and as de-leveraging happens. there are about $50t in funds in these types of retirement vehicles and most funds don't have the cash to cover a tiny % of that in redemptions. this decades-long incessant bid could turn into a seller at some point, which would be catastrophic for markets.as the "e" in p/e stops growing, valuations will get even more aggressive and the market will – at the first point in decades people actually stop to say "where could the mean reversion be in the s&p?" – blow out even further to all-time highs.then, sitting atop the markets is $4 trillion in total speculation, known as the crypto market. this market routinely allows 50-100x leverage and theoretically has no floor. there is no cash flow or balance sheet to hold it up and make it "deep value." it's literally just numbers on paper. btc and eth have some purpose and use case, which may give them a slight floor, but we have no idea how much lower that could even be. there's at least imo $2 trillion in outright detritus in crypto that is worth $0. there is no "dip buying" that makes sense for many of these tokens, in other words.the situation begets a sharp deleveraging. except the fed stepping in to quickly do qe will 1) fail to take effect immediately due to the same aforementioned lag and 2) send already high inflation at 2.8% potentially much higher. the fed needs to work the labor market collapse brake with the inflation gas at the same time. and honestly, rate cuts aren't the answer right now. but they don't care – they'd rather have inflation. so they will print, and our bond market will officially crack, and people will realize inflation is never leaving. no one wants long-dated paper, and the u.s. is a much larger credit risk than 4% on the 10y. the fed will then do yield curve control and sound money assets will explode higher (along with financial assets and anything else that benefits from tons of money printing).the brute force destruction from the inflation that follows will be talked about only as second fiddle to praising the fed for doing a great job bailing out the economy again. powell will get praise, stocks will move higher, and the wealth gap between the top 10% and the rest of the country will widen the fastest in history. all the while, people in financial media will tell you everything's fine because the market hasn't collapsed totally in nominal terms. the bottom 50% of the country won't be able to afford a box of cereal, and guys in suits will be giving central bankers the nobel prize in 5 years for "fixing" things. it's so nefarious because the consequences won't be immediately obvious. the market will come back after the fed does qe, but the real pain will be in inflation's effect on the middle class. it'll be clear in the price of gold, maybe bitcoin, and maybe real estate and stocks.people who have saved cash will be wiped out. and it'll happen under cloak of darkness in the background instead of as a front-page headline, because most people don't understand it – which is what makes it that much more nefarious. honestly, this one feels like end-of-empire stuff. keep your head on a swivel. i hope i'm wrong.Si esto se cumple va a ser curioso lo que viene en Europa en un contexto europeo de recortes del Estado del Bienestar y aumento del gasto y la deuda.Aunque en líneas generales estoy de acuerdo, creo que no se ha tenido en cuenta el impacto de la GENIUS act en el tema cripto y su impacto colateral en la deuda pública americana. Las cosas pueden salir como dice el artículo, o las stablecoins pueden convertirse en un vehículo OBLIGATORIO para el comercio de ciertos servicios (o incluso commodities) desplazando al USD, pero para acceder a esas stablecoins hay que comprar títulos americanos. Esa sería la cuadratura del círculo y la enésima patada adelante. Ahí si veríamos las criptos y el oro a niveles estratosféricos (aunque fuera temporalmente).Me explico: imaginemos que US dice que a partir de ahora sólo te vende su gas licuado (ese que ya no podemos comprarle a Rusia) en LNG coins, y que para tener LNG coins (emitidas por la sólida, neutral y nada sospechosa entidad JPMorgan -recordemos que las sc son PRIVADAS-) sólo se aceptan títulos de deuda pública americana con un valor 1-1 (cada USD de deuda se corresponde con 1 USD de LNG coin). ¿Qué les impide hacer esto [...]¿Que no tienen suficientemente gas?------¿No son precisamente las criptos las que van a comprar deuda? Tú como mucho comprarías las SCs. [Antes de cambiarlas por ese gas...]Se verá. Tampoco tienen suficiente petróleo y hasta antes de ayer todo el mercado se negociaba en USD. Sólo tienen que hacer una llamada amistosa a los emires, reyes, califas y demás y decirles que a partir de ahora el petróleo se negocia en UScoins, y que a cambio les ponen una compañía entera de marines a su disposición para su protección personal salvaguardar la seguridad del reino.Vamos, un poco más o menos lo que se ha estado haciendo hasta ahora pero con otra vuelta de tuerca.Luego EEUU garantiza que el dinero les llegue de vuelta en USD, o incluso que puedan pagar ciertos bienes y servicios americanos con UScoins.
Cita de: el malo en Hoy a las 09:59:07Llevamos unas semanas de muchos titulares que relacionan IA, inversiones de cantidades obscenas y energía, esa gran olvidada. Por un lado hay que ser lo más energéticamente eficiente posible pero por el otro nos gastamos millonadas en pedirle a las IAs que conviertan mi foto en un personaje de los Simpsons.La IA me dice que transformar mi foto cuesta el equivalente energético a cargar un smartphone y que usa unos 2 litros de agua para enfriar el hardware asociado. La misma IA me dice que generar 1000 imágenes produce el mismo CO2 que conducir 4.1 millas. Por cosas como esta se que toda esta nueva ecología y el CO2 y spm es una estafa, porque si de verdad hubiera una emergencia climática el uso de la IA se habría restringido a campos donde realmente aporta valor, y no se hubera puesto en manos todos los Pepito Perez del mundo para que se líen a consumir agua y energía como si no hubiera mañana. El punto que les quería comentar es que estas inversiones billonarias podrían tener un efecto muy curioso. ¿Se imaginan que Google o Meta den con la fusión nuclear o cualquier otro Santo Grial energético como efecto colateral de necesitar energía barata para sus centros de datos? O por el lado negativo, ¿se imaginan que se les permita a empresas privadas construir y controlar de manera autónoma centrales nucleares? ¿qué podría salir mal?La siguiente patada adelante podría venir por ahí. O puede que desencadene una verdadera revolución. Quién sabe como acabará todo esto con esas cantidades mareantes de dinero que leemos todos los días. Lo que tengo claro es que el dinero y el factor trabajo tampoco no valen absolutamente nada. Sálvese quién pueda.Y si la emergencia es real porque se acaba el fósil barato y la IA es la escusa ?
Cambiando de rollo totalmente - o no tanto - fíjense en la afirmación de Felipe González. " Si Hamas no quiere que maten a mujeres y niños que suelte a los rehenes". A mí me ha sonado a oficial de las SS en un pueblo francés en 1942 ejecutando a civiles hasta que se entreguen los miembros de la Resistencia, no sé a ustedes.https://www.eldiario.es/illes-balears/politica/felipe-gonzalez-si-hamas-no-quiere-maten-ninos-mujeres-no-suelta-rehenes-israelies_1_12614357.html
SoftBank Vision Fund To Lay Off 20% of Employees in Shift To Bold AI BetsPosted by msmash on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:30AM from the how-about-that dept.An anonymous reader shares a report:CitarSoftBank Group will lay off nearly 20% of its Vision Fund team globally as it shifts resources to founder Masayoshi Son's large-scale AI bets in the United States, according to a memo seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the plan. The cuts mark the third round of layoffs at the Japanese investment conglomerate's flagship fund since 2022. Vision Fund currently has over 300 employees globally. Unlike previous rounds, when the group was saddled with major losses, the latest reductions come after the fund last month reported its strongest quarterly performance since June 2021, driven by gains in public holdings such as Nvidia and South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang. The move signals a pivot away from a broad portfolio of startup investments. While the fund will continue to make new bets, remaining staff will dedicate more resources to Son's ambitious AI initiatives, such as the proposed $500 billion Stargate project -- an initiative to build a vast network of U.S. data centers in partnership with OpenAI, the source added.
SoftBank Group will lay off nearly 20% of its Vision Fund team globally as it shifts resources to founder Masayoshi Son's large-scale AI bets in the United States, according to a memo seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the plan. The cuts mark the third round of layoffs at the Japanese investment conglomerate's flagship fund since 2022. Vision Fund currently has over 300 employees globally. Unlike previous rounds, when the group was saddled with major losses, the latest reductions come after the fund last month reported its strongest quarterly performance since June 2021, driven by gains in public holdings such as Nvidia and South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang. The move signals a pivot away from a broad portfolio of startup investments. While the fund will continue to make new bets, remaining staff will dedicate more resources to Son's ambitious AI initiatives, such as the proposed $500 billion Stargate project -- an initiative to build a vast network of U.S. data centers in partnership with OpenAI, the source added.
Microsoft is Filling Teams With AI AgentsPosted by msmash on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:01AM from the you-can't-escape dept.An anonymous reader shares a report:CitarMicrosoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users.Facilitator agents will now sit in on Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and answering questions. Agents can also suggest time allotments for different meeting topics -- letting participants know if they're running over -- and create documents and tasks. A mobile version is designed to be activated "with a single tap" so you can make sure the agent doesn't miss out on "a quick hallway chat or a spontaneous in-person sync." Channel agents are designed to answer questions based on a channel's previous conversations and meetings and can also generate status reports for a project the same way.
Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users.Facilitator agents will now sit in on Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and answering questions. Agents can also suggest time allotments for different meeting topics -- letting participants know if they're running over -- and create documents and tasks. A mobile version is designed to be activated "with a single tap" so you can make sure the agent doesn't miss out on "a quick hallway chat or a spontaneous in-person sync." Channel agents are designed to answer questions based on a channel's previous conversations and meetings and can also generate status reports for a project the same way.
China's Future Rests on 200 Million Precarious WorkersPosted by msmash on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:00PM from the flexible-until-it-breaks dept.China's economy increasingly relies on 200 million "flexible workers" who lack formal employment contracts, pensions and urban residency permits despite comprising 25% of the national workforce and 40% of urban workers. The demographic includes 40 million day-wage factory workers and 84 million platform economy workers performing deliveries and ride-share driving. Factory gig workers average 26 years old, are 80% male, and 75-80% single and childless. These workers face systemic exclusions from urban benefits including healthcare, schooling and property ownership due to lacking urban hukou residency permits.China's Supreme Court ruled in August that workers can claim compensation from employers denying benefits, though enforcement mechanisms remain unclear. Economic data shows retail sales growth at yearly lows, continuing property price declines, and rising urban unemployment. Analysts project GDP growth potentially falling to 3% in the third quarter. Manufacturing hubs report increasing numbers of young workers sleeping in parks and under overpasses between temporary jobs.
París no sabía qué hacer para rebajar el precio de la vivienda, pero ahora tiene un plan para bajarloLa capital intenta abrirse paso en medio de una crisis urbana que amenaza con expulsar a las clases medias y trabajadorasEl aparcamiento de la rue Nollet no es un caso aislado. El Ayuntamiento ha identificado unos 800 edificios susceptibles de reconversión, en su mayoría oficinas que han perdido utilidad tras la pandemia y el auge del teletrabajo. Incluso grandes grupos privados, como LVMH, se han visto obligados a integrar viviendas asequibles en sus proyectos. En el caso de la renovación de los almacenes La Samaritaine, la empresa de lujo tuvo que añadir 96 pisos sociales al nuevo complejo comercial. La meta fijada por el consistorio es que, en 2035, el 40% de las viviendas principales de París sean asequibles. De ese porcentaje, un 30% estará reservado a personas con ingresos muy bajos o sin ingresos, y un 10% a hogares con rentas medias. Para lograrlo, la ciudad ha duplicado su presupuesto en vivienda en apenas cinco años hasta alcanzar los 800 millones de euros anuales, una cifra que cuadruplica el gasto del propio Estado francés.Uno de los puntos más polémicos del plan es la presión sobre los distritos acomodados, donde apenas entre el 2% y el 7% de las viviendas son sociales, frente al 42% de los barrios más humildes. La alcaldía quiere reequilibrar la ciudad obligando a los promotores a reservar hasta un 50% de las nuevas promociones a este tipo de vivienda en zonas con déficit. Una medida que, según el vicealcalde Jacques Baudrier, es imprescindible para evitar que París “se convierta en una ciudad solo para ricos”. El plan no está exento de detractores. Desde la oposición y parte del sector inmobiliario se advierte de que un intervencionismo tan fuerte puede ahuyentar la inversión privada y reducir aún más la oferta de alquiler libre, en una ciudad que ya ha perdido un 5% de su población en la última década. Las restricciones a la altura de los edificios y las normativas de protección histórica añaden más trabas a quienes aún quieren construir en la capital.