How To Grow Your Money In AI Revolution
TL;DR
Jordy Visser argues that despite record valuations, the market remains in a secular bull market driven by AI infrastructure spending and expanding tech profit margins, creating a 'run it hot' policy environment where governments prioritize asset price support over inflation control.
📈 Market Resilience & Valuations 3 insights
Twenty-one all-time highs in five months
The S&P 500 has achieved 21 record highs this year while absorbing geopolitical shocks and oil volatility, with the equal-weighted index also hitting highs, indicating broad-based strength rather than narrow speculation.
Buffett indicator at 235% is bullish, not bearish
While the Buffett indicator reached its highest level ever at 235%, earnings are growing faster (14-15%) than stock prices (9-10%), meaning valuations are compressing as profit margins expand exponentially.
Global bull market confirmation
The MSCI World Index XUS is at all-time highs alongside US markets, driven by international AI infrastructure demand, not just domestic tech giants.
🤖 AI Infrastructure Investment 3 insights
First inning of supersonic disruption
Visser describes AI as a generational tsunami in its earliest stages, with the data center buildout creating massive demand for semiconductors, memory, and energy infrastructure that will persist for years.
International suppliers are major winners
Key beneficiaries include ASML, Japanese chemical companies like Aimo Namoto, Korean memory manufacturers, and German industrial firms like Siemens Energy supplying the global AI buildout.
Biotech convergence is underappreciated
The intersection of AI and biotech, particularly in longevity and pharmaceutical development, represents a drastically undervalued opportunity compared to infrastructure plays.
💰 Economic Policy Reality 3 insights
Financialized economy requires intervention
Governments cannot allow significant market declines because the economy depends on asset prices for consumer confidence, retirement security, and transfer payments, making depression-level resets politically impossible.
Running it hot is the only option
The administration has explicitly chosen to maintain loose fiscal and monetary conditions to support asset prices, accepting persistent inflation above 4% rather than risking economic collapse.
Savings rate decline signals optimism
The savings rate dropping to 3% reflects consumers deploying capital into markets and spending out of stock gains, with Johnson Redbook data showing 9% year-over-year retail spending growth.
⚠️ Social Frictions & Risks 3 insights
Data center opposition reflects inequality
Local resistance to data centers in places like Andover, NJ, and public backlash against figures like Eric Schmidt highlight growing anger over wealth distribution and AI-driven displacement.
Geopolitical information warfare
Foreign actors, particularly China, benefit from spreading AI pessimism and regulatory friction to slow US data center construction and win the global AI deployment race.
Permanent consumer bifurcation
Consumer confidence remains split along political lines and economic reality, with pessimism driven by information overload on X and negative news rather than fundamental economic weakness.
Bottom Line
Position capital in the AI infrastructure supply chain—specifically international semiconductor, memory, and energy suppliers—while recognizing that policymakers will prioritize asset price inflation control, making diversified equity exposure essential despite headline valuation concerns.
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