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What if the cleanest read on market risk isn’t a sentiment index but the dollar itself? We connect the dots from DXY’s slide and rebound to the invisible gears of Eurodollar credit, showing how collateral breathes through trade invoices, repos, and leverage, and how that breath has begun to shorten. From port softness and a reported 17% drop in trucking volumes to tighter haircuts and slower factoring, we map the quiet contraction that can force risk assets to pay a toll in the form of sharp pullbacks.

We dig into why professionals rarely short meme‑charged leaders like Palantir even when valuations look unhinged, and how the “malicious” habit of strong markets is to snap back toward the one‑year moving average before pushing higher. Along the way, we revisit the Supreme Court’s tariff signals, the politics of New York’s vote, and the way those headlines filter into liquidity creation via trade flows. On jobs, we unpack an ADP beat that hides softness in information and professional services while healthcare and utilities carry the print, and we talk frankly about how AI threatens a quarter of tasks, particularly in admin and legal support.

Finally, we ask a contrarian question: is Apple right to avoid an AI capex arms race? Preserving balance sheet flexibility might be the smarter bet if we’re edging toward a collateral recession where financing gets stingier and optionality becomes a moat. Expect volatility, not apocalypse; respect the cadence of liquidity; and plan for violent, normal pullbacks within long trends. If this perspective challenges how you track markets, follow, share with a friend, and leave a quick review. What’s your top stress indicator right now?

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When logic fails, hedges break, and the models panic.

Markets rarely behave. In this episode, Hugh Hendry unpacks why. 

Exploring what happens when models flash red and logic collapses in real time. From George Gammon’s CarMax hedge to the intricacies of dating, calculating sexual market value and the Fed’s confused dance with Treasury policy, Hugh dissects how a “Z-score of 3” moment becomes a one-in-a-thousand event that reshapes portfolios.

He links collapsing used-car stocks to compressed thirty year immigration trends, digs into the stealth recession in U.S. housing, and considers how risk managers unknowingly amplify panic by reducing exposure. Along the way he spotlights Martin Marietta, BioNTech’s AI ambitions, and why the next big opportunity may lie inside America’s housing-linked equities.

This is a raw, late-night macro sermon from St Barts: part reflection, part market therapy. Traders and macro mavens will find insight in Hugh’s irreverent exploration of fear, liquidity, and conviction.

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Any Fool Could Make Money in Gold

But Only a Lunatic Could Explain It Like This

The lights flicker but they don't go out.

Today I tracked the silence. No CPI, no jobs print, no retail sales. The government is shut. The market is not. What moved was subtle. What didn’t move, the real story.

Treasury yields dipped below 4 percent momentarily. Safety or something stranger? Bank stocks cracked again. Zions and KeyCorp lit the fuse with rising provisions and sour auto and credit card loans. That wasn't just a repeat of 2023. This feels like the credit cycle got squeezed. A demographic surge hit too fast. Fifty years of migration change compressed into one. The models never caught up. Now they're breaking.

Steve Miran, the Fed’s newest voice, kept it cool. No surprise. But that calm tone is the tell. He knows the maps are wrong. They're flying with a faulty speedometer, in a world shifting too fast.

Gold hit $4,300. Not from inflation. From doubt. I revisited the Sinclair thesis. A flawed but compelling idea. What if gold is just a mirror for broken trust? 

Bitcoin’s thesis is also resurfacing. Ten trillion isn’t far off if even a sliver of cash or pensions tip in.

That’s where I leave it. No script. No forecast. Just recognition.

Listen now and subscribe to ACID BREATH because when the official data disappears, the distortions are the data.

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Cem Karsan's breadth and depth of knowledge has the Acid Capitalist reaching for the Ashwagandha! 

NOTE: Apologies for the audio quality. We are trying!  

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Saving retail investors one podcast at at time...all I can ask is that you stick with us till the end on this one...

NOTE:  We've sped up our guest’s audio. You'll understand why when you listen. 

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Hendry Goes to China: the Great GDP Swindle 

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Welcome to a special episode of the Acid Capitalist --  ghost in the machine. This week we have an interview with an institutional trader on Wall Street who focuses on exotic derivatives and volatility. After the interview was over the guest's firm threatened legal action and tried to stop this episode from airing. The guest and firm will remain anonymous. Listen and judge for yourself why they tried to stop us. I suggest the guest and firm panic. The tribe of Acid Capitalism will not be stopped. Enjoy.

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Join the Alchemist and Hugh as they enter the voodoo lounge with with Jared Dillian... 

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00:00:00 - Leaving summer behind 
00:03:00 - Dirt nap
00:12:40 - Mistakes were made
00:19:30 - Getting sentimental 
00:25:50 - Theory of a**holes 
00:42:44 - Sucked out of the mainframe 
00:46:45 - Propaganda Machine
00:59:20 - Uranium tourists
01:07:00 - The most compelling trades...
01:12:24 - Cannabis is the next bitcoin?
01:20:00 - DJ Stochastic 

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Rampaging Russ AKA Russell Clark, is back for round two! 

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00:00:00 - Fetching and sexy
00:02:20 - Melt our minds... 
00:20:00 - Whatever it takes!  
00:26:30 - The world has changed 
00:28:00 - Playing politics 
00:29:00 - Adam Smith and beavers
00:35:30 - The great vol machine 
00:41:18 - Asset rich, cash poor  
00:44:30 - The Texas Hustle 
01:04:00 - Bloomberg and other scams 
01:07:00 - RIP 
01:11:00 - Tail to my fox 
01:15:00 - Melt away! 

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Prof. Blanchflower joins Hugh and the Alchemist for a no-holds-barred discussion on the folly of group think and failure of central banks.

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00:00:00 - The PM rang me up
00:00:45 - Danny, "Champion of the World"
00:02:10 - Group think
00:04:40 - Silent depression
00:11:40 - Fool me once...
00:22:30 - How did I get here?
00:27:00 - The den of conformity
00:30:00 - The thing that really worries me
00:32:10 - No penalty for being wrong!
00:36:14 - Yanis
00:41:00 - What's the answer?
00:43:19 - Desert Island Discs with Mervyn King
00:50:20 - A world we don't understand
00:51:20 - I recommend the BBC panic
00:52:29 - www.acidcap.com

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