The guys kick off the Fourth of July week by arguing that high agency culture is still America's edge, then dive into why AI is officially too big to fail. Marty and John break down FERC forcing grid operators to fast track data center connections, OpenAI floating a five percent stake to the Trump administration, and Marc Andreessen landing on the Pentagon's defense policy board. They also dig into the memory bottleneck squeezing the chip buildout, why frontier models are not getting commoditized by open source, and what Saudi oil flows back at ninety percent mean for Iran's leverage. To close, they look at Trump's fifty million dollar Bitcoin stash, Strategy selling coin to fund dividends, and whether Washington might already be building a strategic position through the public markets.
In this episode:
- Happy Fourth and why high agency culture still matters
- FERC orders grid operators to fast track data center interconnection
- OpenAI proposes a five percent stake to the administration
- Marc Andreessen joins the Pentagon defense policy board
- TSMC doubles down in Arizona and the fifty percent fab target
- Memory bottleneck, DRAM, and the chip shortage reality
- Frontier models versus open source commoditization fears
- Saudi oil back to ninety percent and Iran's floating stockpile
- China housing collapse and liquidity pumps
- Trump discloses fifty million in Bitcoin cold storage
- Strategy's digital credit framework and Bitcoin sales
- Could Washington be building a strategic reserve via public markets
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Happy Fourth and high agency culture
00:02:01 - Grid stability and energy abundance
00:02:40 - FERC orders fast track data center interconnection
00:04:51 - AI officially too big to fail
00:05:50 - OpenAI proposes five percent stake
00:08:31 - Marc Andreessen joins defense policy board
00:10:59 - TSMC doubles Arizona investment
00:14:11 - Memory bottleneck and chip headlines
00:17:12 - Etched and compute breakthroughs
00:18:42 - Frontier versus open source models
00:21:33 - Saudi oil flows and Iran stockpile
00:23:46 - China housing and liquidity pumps
00:24:59 - Trump Bitcoin disclosure
00:27:34 - Strategy digital credit framework
00:28:12 - Strategy sells Bitcoin for dividends
00:31:25 - Strategic reserve via public markets
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