Breakaway - Investing & Finance

Mkts, AI, Amazon, Tesla, DOGE

Episode 84

Colleges

Cabo to college: A&M, TCU Stockyard. Miami, Tennessee, Clemson

Embrace AI!!  Particularly younger professionals!  

Markets 

  • Markets correcting. S&P 500 down 3% last few days. Still up 2% YTD and 18% 1 year.   

Starbucks laying 1000 off

Apple to invest $500 billion in US. 

NVIDIA earnings tonight. Its like a superbowl event. 

Foreign companies. 21:30 min on The Compound and Friends: Brian Belsky on foreign investments. 

Bezos announcement around WaPo:I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.

Buffet Letter: Long-Term Optimism: Despite market frothiness (he calls it "casino-like" elsewhere), Buffett remains bullish on America’s economic tailwind. He sees stocks as the best bet over bonds or cash long-term.

Margin Loans

Amazon and AI

  • Andy Jassy on Alexa+.
  • Grok 3.

Tesla and XAI

  • Down ~40%. 
  • Tesla (TSLA) new car registrations fell 45.2% year over year to 9,945 in January in the European Union, European Free Trade Association, and UK, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association said Tuesday.
    • People are waiting for Model Y ramp. 

Wow #FSDChina

Who will build Robots for US Govt? 

All-in on Elon setting up xAI data center. 

DOGE 

Ron Desantis on Property Taxes

Recommendations

  • CEO of Scale AI: Alexandr Wang on This past weekend with Theo Von.
  • Book: The Lion Women of Tehran. Mothers and daughters, love, jealousy. 
  • Paramount+: Seal Team
  • Trumps cabinet meeting
  • Dictators podcast.