Breakaway - Investing & Finance
Breakaway from the haters and mainstream thought. Learn about Investing, Finance and the Economy in a plain english and entertaining way. Understand the business environment and make money investing. Uncertainty in the markets driven by crisis, anarchy, politics and craziness is simply opportunity. Facts and truth here.
Breakaway - Investing & Finance
College, Markets down, AI, Robotics & China, Govt
Opening Fun
- A&M, TCU, Miami, Tennessee, Clemson
- 529 plans
- Jensen Huang on the importance of working with AI link.
- Snoop Dog riffing on Thanking Himself
Saturday Night Live - CouplaBeers
SpaceX. Starship Booster caught for 3rd time
WSJ Headline: SpaceX Again Loses Spacecraft During Latest Starship Test Flight
Markets:
- Tech down 12%, S&P 500 down 5.5%.
- Tesla down 45%. This means up 82% to back to normal. That’s huge!! Wait till Robotaxi.
Crypto: Fortknox for digital gold: Bitcoin
Tesla
China Tech
Xiaomi. Apple of China. From WSJ: The Chinese EV Maker Threatening Ford and GM
China AI
Robots
Figure’s focus on general-purpose humanoid robots aligns with the podcast’s tech-forward audience, and their recent moves—like a $675 million funding round in 2024 with backing from OpenAI and NVIDIA
China Robots
- Xiaomi.
- Unitree Robotics
- UBTECH Robotics
- Agibot (Zhiyuan Robot)
- LimX Dynamics
- EX Robots
- Elon on Optimus manufacturing. Will produce several 1000 Optimus robots for factory use.
Politics
- Trumps list of money not well spent:
- The transparency is great!
- Discussion in White house with Zelensky, Trump and Vance
- WOW!!!! KEY POINT is we see what’s going on!!!!
- Full interview here.
- 22 Dems echoing the same script. Funny take by Stephen A Smith.
- Newsome with Charlie Kirk. Play here at 0:30
DOGE
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just announced plans to use the Postal Service to conduct the Census instead of wasting billions.