The Market Is Flashing Bullish And Dangerous At Once

Chamath Palihapitiya says today’s market sends conflicting signals, with valuation gauges near extremes while breadth and momentum still point higher.
His takeaway is to stay more risk-off because almost any investor can cherry-pick data to justify a preexisting view.

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(0:00) Bestie intros: Travis Kalanick joins the show!

(0:42) Mamdani taxes the rich: new pied-à-terre tax coming to NYC

(11:23) OpenAI's identity crisis: Leaked memo, enterprise pivot, Anhropic valuation flip (27:28) Big Tech's compute dominance: How will this impact frontier labs?

(33:53) Allbirds stock up over 400% on AI pivot, and what's behind the datacenter disaster?

(54:37) The Price is Wrong: Name That Overvalued Startup ROUND 1

(59:23) Eric Swalwell drops out of CA governor race and resigns from Congress: Who knew what and when? Impact of the Democratic Machine

(1:10:31) State of the market: Confusing indicators, pricing in Iran peace, AI's mixed results, inflated valuations

(1:26:31) The Price is Wrong: Name That Overvalued Startup ROUND 2

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