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- 2 days ago3 min
Noble Update Subscriber Call - Oct. 5 Replay
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit georgenoble.substack.comOur subscriber call today was TERRIFIC.We talked about:* Why rates still have room to run* Where the real bubble in this market is hiding* What I expect once the election is behind us* Which scoreboard names I'd still buy today, and where I'm taking profits.* My best advice for anyone coming off a bad yearI highly recommend you watch the full replay!Be sure to be…
- 2 days ago1 min
REMINDER: Noble Update Call today at 12 PM EST
The Noble Update has doubled in the last 60 days, and that's because of YOU. Thank you for the extraordinary support.Our longs are up 24.4% on average and our shorts are down 36.5%, which puts a 60.9% spread between the 2 books.The results matter, and the process behind them matters even more. That's what today's subscriber call at 12 PM Eastern is about. I'll walk you through our picks and our process, and I'll explain how to read the scoreboard (since there was some confusion).Know what you own.We've got content coming in Q4 that I think is going to blow your mind.Many happy returns.If you're not a subscriber yet, you can join here and join The Noble Update call today at 12 PM Eastern (you will be able to access the replays if you can't make it live): This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
- 3 days ago1h 30m
The Ultimate AI Demolition With Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran, and Nobody Special
This panel is the AI skeptics' version of the '92 Dream Team: Ed Zitron, Gary Marcus, Julien Garran and Nobody Special, all on one stage. This is what you'll hear:* We run the math on how much of Big Tech’s profits this buildout could wipe out, and the number is staggering.* We go through the leaked Anthropic filing and the numbers that never made the headlines.* We expose the balance sheet games the biggest names in tech are now playing to keep the money flowing.* We follow the risk all the way down to who’s really holding it, and it’s probably you.* We cut through the “rogue AI” headlines and get to what’s actually going on.* And you’ll hear a story about OpenAI that you won’t believe until you hear it.We also get into what the fallout looks like from here, and where the real opportunity sits once the dust settles.I’ve called this the biggest misallocation of capital in history, and this panel shows you exactly why.Watch it on Youtube here: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
- 5 days ago55 min
Uranium Alpha
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions* Assess the $15 billion physical uranium market structure: The underlying commodity market is exceptionally thin, cash-only, and lacks liquid derivatives or futures, creating structural supply vulnerabilities despite steady global reactor growth. * Capitalize on pricing disconnects in physical contracts: Utilities are entering long-term contracts with price floors near $105/lb and caps at $130/lb, while spot prices linger around $89/lb—below greenfield mine incentive costs of $120–$130/lb. * Prepare for supply squeezes driven by policy mandates: US legislation mandating domestic uranium purchases and banning Russian enriched imports faces physical impossibilities, as current US production is only 3 million pounds against 55 million pounds of annual consumption. * Short speculative SMR and fusion ventures while favoring proven operators: Highly hyped SMR startups face massive safety, regulatory, and technical risks, making established defense/industrial suppliers with existing miniaturized reactor capabilities far more viable. * Position for sum-of-the-parts revaluation in tier-one miners: Primary uranium producers present significant asymmetric upside through overlooked asset stakes, such as pending nuclear services unit IPOs, alongside long-term physical commodity holding vehicles. Executive SummaryThe global nuclear fuel supply chain faces a structural supply-demand deficit driven by low utility inventories, political restrictions on Russian imports, and lengthy mine development timelines. Despite long-term fundamentals supporting substantial price increases, physical uranium and mining equities remain artificially depressed due to high interest rates, illiquid spot markets, and transient macro sentiment. Strategic opportunities exist in physical uranium holding vehicles, established tier-one miners with hidden asset value, and military-contracted nuclear engineering providers. Conversely, early-stage fusion companies and unproven small modular reactor (SMR) startups represent significant downside risk due to unviable technology and severe safety constraints.Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons* Physical supply deficits will trigger a market squeeze: The exhaustion of utility buffer inventories and impending bans on Russian nuclear imports will force utility buyers into a tight market by 2028–2029.* Build baseline allocations in physical uranium holding trusts (e.g., Sprott Uranium Trust) during periods of weakness to capture long-term supply deficit upside without operational execution risk.* Unhedged greenfield projects face economic friction: Greenfield mining projects require selling prices of $120–$130/lb to justify production, far exceeding current spot prices.* Avoid investing in unhedged, early-stage greenfield miners dependent on near-term spot pricing to fund capital expenditures.* Commercial hype in nuclear technology creates short opportunities: Venture-backed SMR startups and commercial fusion firms frequently make unrealistic timeline claims while utilizing high-risk fuel and cooling configurations.* Maintain a short bias or zero exposure toward speculative SMR/fusion pure-plays, redirecting capital toward established industrial incumbents with military track records.* Sum-of-the-parts mispricings offer margin of safety: Market mispricings occur when major miners hold hidden or equity-accounted stakes in auxiliary nuclear infrastructure units.* Target large-cap uranium producers where non-consolidated holdings (e.g., reactor service providers) cover a dominant portion of the enterprise valuation.* Product tanker tightness driven by global refined fuel imbalances: Supply chain disruptions and regional refinery closures have created severe supply bottlenecks for refined products like diesel and jet fuel.* Overweight product tanker shipping fleets and offshore oil service providers over unhedged land drillers or unprofitable renewable energy equities.🔗 Renaud’s Website: https://www.anaconda-invest.com/Watch on Youtube: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
- 1 weeks ago1 min
THIS ANTHROPIC IPO IS THE MOST DANGEROUS DEAL I'VE SEEN IN MY 45-YEAR CAREER
Anthropic's own IPO filing tells you why:The prospectus warns that its AI models could resist being shut down and could hide or manipulate information. If you run security at a big bank, that's the last thing you're letting anywhere near your customers' money.The surveys back that up too: 69% of IT and security leaders say security worries are slowing down their AI agent rollouts, and only 1 in 5 American businesses use AI in any part of their work.And the revenue Anthropic does have leans on a VERY short list. Nearly 25% of last year's sales came from just 2 customers, and plenty of its big customers aren't locked into long-term contracts.Now look at the bills:Anthropic has signed up for $518 billion of computing over the next decade, and 80% of it gets paid whether the customers show up or not. The filing says so itself: "If our actual spend falls short, we must pay Google the difference."What could possibly go wrong?Every dollar of that $518 billion sits in somebody else's revenue forecast. Wall Street's tech analysts have the sector's cash flow doubling to $2.4 trillion by 2028, and the analysts who cover the customers are forecasting a much smaller pile of cash to pay for it.Wayne Gretzky's father famously taught him "to skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been." For 3 years the puck was chips and data centers, and the people selling them got rich. Now the puck is heading to the customer, and the customer is SCARED.At $2 trillion you're paying for NARRATIVE DOMINANCE, a story where every company on earth runs on AI. When the customers don't show up on schedule, most of that $518 billion still comes due, and whoever holds the stock eats the difference.We skated to where this puck was going a long time ago:In January we showed you that most CFOs couldn't point to any measurable return on their AI spending. Those CFOs sign the checks this whole thing depends on, and 8 months later their security teams are still standing in the doorway.In May I told you SpaceX's record IPO would be forced into the index funds on its 15th trading day, and that your 401k would be the exit liquidity. On July 7 it joined the Nasdaq-100, and the funds tracking it had to buy an estimated $4.3 billion of stock.Anthropic is next in line. AND THIS IS MUCH MORE DANGEROUS.$2 trillion IPO, record spending, and no customers.If they can't get money from investors it's OVER for the whole AI boom.Own businesses whose customers are paying them today, like energy, and let somebody else pay $2 trillion for customers that haven't shown up yet.Don't be the exit liquidity.IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE Q4 SPECIAL OFFER.Tomorrow, October 1, The Noble Update goes from $450 to $599 a year and the Founding Membership goes from $950 to $1,200, with the monthly moving to $99. Subscribe before the day is over and you keep today's price for as long as you stay subscribed, and you'll also get a seat on Monday's live call with me.Check out the full interview here: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
- 1 weeks ago48 min
Bond Yields to 10%
1. Strategic Actions and Decisions* Divest from fixed income assets and prepare for elevated yields: Reallocate capital out of bonds as structural factors—such as heavy government issuance and persistent inflation—drive 10-year Treasury yields toward 10% by 2032. * Monitor critical Treasury yield thresholds for potential equity market stress: Track the 2-year Treasury yield, as a monthly close above 5.30% signals a rapid move toward 6%–7%, which equity markets cannot absorb. * Capitalize on capital flows into non-U.S. treasury assets: Adjust institutional allocation strategies to account for foreign marginal buyers preferring U.S. megacap tech equities over U.S. Treasuries. * Increase portfolio exposure to energy and real assets: Overweight real assets and energy equity allocations, watching Brent crude for a breakout above $111/barrel that could drive oil toward $200 due to supply vulnerabilities. * Participate in alternative global settlement systems: Evaluate exposures to non-dollar trade rails, such as Saudi Arabia’s gold-backed vaults for oil transactions, which create a bifurcated currency regime. Executive SummaryThis interview addresses structural shifts in global bond markets, energy supply dynamics, and international capital flows. Strong consensus among European institutional investors suggests a belief in a 5% cap on U.S. 10-year yields, yet long-term structural factors indicate bond yields could eventually reach 10%. Marginal non-U.S. buyers are actively redirecting capital from U.S. Treasuries toward U.S. megacap technology equities, tying broader economic stability directly to equity performance. Meanwhile, persistent energy supply constraints and non-dollar trade settlement mechanisms—such as gold-for-oil exchanges in the Middle East—signal continued inflationary pressure and a bifurcated global monetary system.Key Takeaways and Practical Lessons* The secular bull market in bonds has ended: Shift portfolio positioning from fixed income to real assets. Extended multi-decade bond bull markets are giving way to higher long-term yields, making traditional fixed income ineffective for wealth preservation; capital should instead be directed toward energy, commodities, and inflation-hedged instruments.* U.S. equities have superseded bonds as the primary economic engine: Maintain core equity allocation in high-margin cash-flowing market leaders. Because non-U.S. institutional capital overwhelmingly favors U.S. equities over debt instruments, consumer spending and broader economic stability are deeply tied to equity wealth creation.* Global energy markets face structural, long-term upside risk: Overweight energy supply chain assets. Underinvestment in traditional energy and potential supply disruptions leave global markets vulnerable to substantial price spikes, requiring higher structural allocations to energy equities and physical resources.* Alternative financial architecture is actively diluting U.S. dollar dominance: Monitor and hedge against alternative payment rails. Bilateral trade settlements bypassing the U.S. dollar—specifically through physical gold vaults in Asia and the Middle East—are establishing a dual global trade system that increases currency and regime risk for purely dollar-denominated portfolios.* Rapid yield acceleration poses immediate risk to leveraged equity valuations: Establish clear stop-loss and hedging triggers around key short-term rates. Rapid, multi-point intraday fluctuations in benchmark bond rates can force leverage unwinds across hedge funds and financial institutions, disrupting broader market stability if short-term rates exceed critical technical bounds.Follow Larry on Twitter/X: @LeJeddelohWatch on Youtube: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
- 1 weeks ago2 min
Let me take you back to 1990
In June 1990 I told Louis Rukeyser on Wall Street Week that the Japanese bull market was over, and the Nikkei didn’t see its 1989 high again until 2024.The reason was simple:Japanese stocks were still trading at 50 times earnings while their long bonds paid around 7%. A stock at 50 times earnings gives you a 2% earnings yield, and 2% can’t compete with a 7% government bond.In the same interview I warned that any company with a leveraged balance sheet in a cyclical industry could get into trouble, and I singled out the airlines. The recession started the following month, and within 7 months Continental and Pan Am had both filed for bankruptcy.I still run those same 2 tests on every stock today, comparing what the business earns me against what a bond pays me and checking how much debt is holding it up. With long-term rates pushing higher, a lot of the AI darlings are priced on stories and financed with borrowed money, and the crowd is still convinced this time is “different.”I learned my trade under Peter Lynch at Fidelity and ran the #1 mutual fund in the country in 1985, my first year managing money. I went on to found 2 hedge funds that each grew past $1 billion, and decades later the method hasn't changed:Our longs are up 24.4% on average and our shorts are down 36.5%, a 60.9% spread that works out to 133% annualized, and 21 of our 24 scored calls are winners.Stock prices follow earnings, and right now that test points us long energy and the gold miners and short the consumer names, tech and anything sensitive to interest rates. Dispersion is increasing, so the gap between the right stocks and the wrong ones keeps getting wider.Every position we hold is inside The Noble Update, including the 10 new ideas from the last month, and new picks keep getting added. On October 1, the annual goes from $450 to $599 and the Founding Membership (with free access to 6 conferences per year) goes from $950 to $1,200, with the monthly moving to $99. Subscribe before then and lock in today’s price for as long as you stay subscribed:And remember: WE ARE IN A MARKET OF STOCKS. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
- 1 weeks ago4 min
The narrative chasers are about to find out what a stock picker's market feels like
Many subscribers asked for a single place to track all of our stock picks, so we built it:A live scoreboard with the entry and current price on every position. 21 of our 24 scored calls are winners, and the 3 that aren’t are on there in red, because I’m not in the business of hiding losers.Ask whoever you’re paying for stock picks to publish the same thing. Most won’t, because a sheet like this shows you very quickly who does real fundamental work and who’s been riding a rising market since 2020. “Any fool can make money when everything goes up.”I’ve been at this for 45 years and I ran the #1 fund in the country. 2022 was a bad year for me with the ETF, and if you want to talk about it, fine, I’ve always been open about it.But there’s a lot of dispersion in this market right now, which means there’s a lot of alpha to be had, and that’s the kind of environment I thrive on. If you’ve been chasing narratives and momentum, you’re about to find out how much harder things get when fundamentals matter again.The free sheet shows every public call. Paid subscribers see every position we hold, including the 10 new ideas we’ve published over the last month - and we are regularly adding more.»SPREADSHEET«»SPREADSHEET«This post has bonus content for paid subscribers. Upgrade to get full access.Also a reminder that prices to join The Noble Update go up on Thursday, October 1, when annual moves from $450 to $599 and monthly moves to $99, so subscribe before then and you keep today’s price for as long as you stay subscribed. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georgenoble.substack.com/subscribe
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