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Paul Kedrosky

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Kedrosky Daily: Lowest US credit risk; native unemployment rises

Rough Notes: Jan 26, 2026

Nvidia Under Pressure: Coreweave Investment Plus Google TPUs

Kedrosky Daily: US bond spread lowest in 30 years;unemployment rises for natives only

Rough Notes: Jan 25, 2026

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: US Corp Spread Near Low; Unemployment Diverges After 2025

Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex Code Red

Rough Notes, Weekend Edition: Jan 24-25, 2026

Rough Notes: Jan 23, 2026

Kedrosky Daily: TTF outperformed indexes; iOS app growth surged

Bonus Chart: App Growth Soaring in App Store

Everything That AIs Must Converge

Rough Notes: Jan 22, 2026

Are Zero-Return Decades an Outlier? No

Kedrosky Daily: Private credit assets surge by 2025; Blue Owl Tech redemptions spike in Q4 2025

Four Takeaways from Microsoft's Satya Nadella at WEF Today

Rough Notes: Jan 20, 2026

Rough Notes: Jan 19, 2026

Rough Notes: Jan 16, 2026

Kedrosky Daily: Prediction market volume hit $8bn; Humanoids market may top $200bn

Kedrosky Daily: Prediction market volume soars to 9bn by late 2025; humanoids market may exceed 200bn by 2035

Rough Notes: Jan 14, 2026

Kedrosky Daily: Economy importance rises sharply Nvidia leads AI compute sales

Kedrosky Daily: Tech job growth stalls in 2024; tariff lawsuits surge after Supreme Court hearing

Rough Notes: Jan 12, 2026

Kedrosky Daily: S&P 500 outperforms Magnificent Seven; more bonds upgraded than downgraded

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Organ meat sales rise through 2025; fallen angels outnumber rising stars in 2020

Kedrosky Daily: AI loan growth outpaces fund exposure; S&P 500 earnings peak then normalize

Kedrosky Daily: Gas prices hit lows near 3 dollars; Oracle CDS risk rises sharply

Kedrosky Daily: Art loan portfolio doubles by 2027; Venezuela crude reserves triple by reclassification

Kedrosky Daily: Wyoming snow cover hits record low; California snow cover ranks well above median

Kedrosky Daily: US gaming revenue doubled since 2020; China investment peaks while consumption lags

Kedrosky Daily: Gold rose 72 Bitcoin fell 6 consumer confidence hits two year low

Kedrosky Daily: Gold rose 72 Bitcoin fell 6 US confidence hits two year low; Consumer confidence drops five months straight

Kedrosky Daily: Marijuana use rises in seniors; home sizes shrink since 2015

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Home sizes drop to decade low; GPUs use 41 percent of AI power

Kedrosky Daily: Aspen hosts top home sales; semiconductor jobs rise then fall

Morgan Stanley's Banking Lead, Debt Buyers Bumping Against Limits, AI in Space, etc.

Private AI Companies Are the New Public AI Companies

An Oracle CDS Lesson: Inevitable, But Also Misunderstood

Which AI Inning Are We In?

Kedrosky Daily: Largest cities shift to low income countries; bank credit share drops to thirteen percent

Weekend Thinking: A Cul-de-Sac With a View

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Oracle bond yields spike as US population growth shifts to immigration

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Oracle bond yields surge past junk; net immigration drives US growth

The Oracle of Fermi Speaks

Kedrosky Daily: Hyperscaler capex triples by 2026; Forty percent of Russell 2000 firms lose money

The Oracle of Yore, and Early Q3 GDP Mysteries

Kedrosky Daily: Hyperscaler capex to quintuple by 2026; Small caps face persistent earnings losses

Kedrosky Daily: Hyperscaler capex to double by 2026 Oracle share triples

Vibe Hacking, S&P, and Why Howard Marks is Terrified

Kedrosky Daily: Istanbul tops global traffic delays Chicago beats LA

Kedrosky Daily: Istanbul tops global traffic delays 118h Chicago leads Americas 112h

Talking To Paul Krugman About AI

Kedrosky Daily: Pacific Northwest rain exceeds 12 inches, US seniors hold 32% wealth

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Microsoft capex-to-sales hits 25% surpassing Exxon US passport issuance peaks at 24M

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Microsoft capex doubles Exxon’s by 2025, US passports hit records

Weekend Thinking Dec 5, 2025

AEP Wants to Dump 750 MW of Data Center Power. Why?

Kedrosky Daily: US automakers lag in fuel economy China leads global EV sales 2024

Taiwan as AI Geopolitics Hinge

Does Gemini Show That Scaling Still Works? No.

Kedrosky Daily: US power outages hit decade high, MicroStrategy debt tops bitcoin value

Private Credit Talks Back

AI Capex in H1 2025 Prevented a Recession

Kedrosky Daily: Western US snow low, humans dominate mammal biomass

Ex-AI Capex, the US was in Recession in H1 2025

Kedrosky Daily: Low Western US Snow Cover, Humans Dominate Mammal Biomass

Kedrosky Daily: Military Base Zips Lead Crypto Returns, ORCL CDS Doubles

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: China’s trade surplus nears $965B Bitcoin mining breaks even

Me Media Watch: My WSJ Picks for Books on Work, Historical Bubbles, etc.

Has Corporate AI Adoption Stalled in Low Teens? Doubtful

AI Capex Risk and the End of Scaling

Kedrosky Daily: Nasdaq Bitcoin Diverge Mid 2024 AI Debt Surpasses Banks by 2025

AI Capex Risk as Predictable Engineering

Kedrosky Daily: China saving rate; AI mega-deals in VC

Kedrosky Daily: China saving rate stays high post-pandemic AI mega-deals dominate VC

Rogue AI, From RAND to Nvidia: Selection is the Signal

Kedrosky Daily: China triples robot installs, doubles US manufacturing value

Data Center Operators are Cheerily Uneasy About the Future

Kedrosky Daily: Driver error causes 75% of US crashes, YouTube leads streaming gains

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: US cybercrime costs hit $16.6B China leads quantum funding

On Benchmark Games, Gemini, and Declining Returns to Scale

Stranded Assets and the AI-Driven Gas Turbine Renaissance

Kedrosky Daily: Crypto Fear Hits Extreme as Market Drops 30 Percent

Kedrosky Daily: Crypto Fear Hits Extreme as Market Drops 30 Percent

Proxy Test 6

Kedrosky Daily: Bitcoin mining near break-even, MicroStrategy shares drop sharply

Sendy Test 23

Testing Daily Kedrosky

Sendy Post 13

Kedrosky Daily: Oracle’s backlog 58% OpenAI, big firms add 151K jobs small firms lose 88K

Sendy Test 12

Sendy test 4

Sendy Test 3

Kedrosky Daily: ChatGPT users 55+ hit 28 percent in Q3 2025, leads US AI usage

Testing

Media: Recent Bloomberg Odd Lots Appearance

Updates: GenAI Adoption Shifts, Chinese Models, etc.

Kedrosky Daily: Google leads AI model race 84 percent tech IP growth outpaces others

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Asia’s emissions surpass West, youth disconnection rises US UK

On AI CapEx Apologists

Kedrosky Daily: Retail share in SPX 0DTE options tops 50 US equity risk peaks

Kedrosky Daily: Employer health costs surge fivefold, global power demand doubles

The Great Credit Convergence

Global Data Center Investment Passes Oil Investment

Kedrosky Daily: Employer health costs up 5x, electricity demand doubles by 2035

Meta: Purging of Dissidents vs Open Rebellion

Kedrosky Daily: AI data center funding gap 27 percent construction spending surges

Kedrosky Daily: China births drop 70% since 1963, AI firms hit $100B fast

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: NYC jobs shift to health care women 70+ marathon surge

Four Things: OpenAI's Backstop, CoreWeave CDS, Oregon, and Humanity's TAM

Kedrosky Daily: Labor growth plummets 80 percent, VFX jobs drop 33 percent

Kedrosky Daily: Grok lags in AI adoption, AI data center borrowing hits $126B

Kedrosky Daily: Grok lags behind ChatGPT Gemini AI tech borrowing hits $126B in 2025

Updates: Bragawatts, Nvidia Theater, Me Stuff, etc.

Kedrosky Daily: US weekend box office hits multi-decade low, bond maturities rise

Kedrosky Daily: US Box Office Hits Multi-Decade Low, Convertible Bond Maturities Rise

Kedrosky Daily — Sunday Edition: Oman jumps from unlisted in 2015 to 4th in 2025, highlighting significant imp…

Kedrosky Daily (Commodities edition): Healthcare and service roles exhibit minimal core AI development compared to …

Kedrosky Daily (Commodities edition): AI recruiting tools dominate healthcare sectors like dental and nursing, high…

Four Ideas (Life sciences edition): AI Integration in Healthcare Tech and Diagnostics

Four Ideas (AI edition): AI Transformations and Market Realignments

Four Ideas (Macro edition): Interest Rate Moves and Structural Economic Changes

Four Ideas, Sunday Edition: AI Transformation in Healthcare and Industry Shifts

Oct 24, 2025 Update: Nvidia as Pop Mart, Power, Policy, etc.

Four Ideas (Commodities edition): Commodity Trends and Geopolitical Dynamics

Four Ideas (Life sciences edition): Healthcare AI, Health Tech Investments, AI in Healthcare, FDA Breakthrough Devices

Four Ideas (Macro edition): Emerging Macro Trends Impact on Non-Obvious Sectors

Four Ideas, Sunday Edition:

Quick Hits: AI Capex and Consumer Spending

Minsky Moments and AI CapEx

Four Ideas (Energy edition): Renewable Energy Grid Innovations and EV Shifts

Four Ideas (Commodities edition): Global Commodity Trends and Implications

Rougher Notes, Oct 15, 2025: Blackouts, TeraWulf, Debt, etc.

Four Ideas (Life sciences edition): Healthcare AI Innovation and Market Dynamics

Quick Hits: AI Capex is Eating ... San Francisco

Four Ideas (AI edition): AI Impact on Utilities and Travel

Quick Hits: An India of Incremental Power Ahead

Quick Hits: The Data Center Growth Slowdown

Four Ideas (Macro edition): Global Fragmentation, Reserve Diversification, Geoeconomics Impact, Industrial Growth

Four Ideas, Sunday Edition:

Quick Hits: Roger Rabbit's Data Center, Colo Spin, etc.

Why AI Capex isn't a Bubble: A Perez-ian Perspective

Four Ideas (Life sciences edition): Healthcare AI and MedTech Innovations

The Godfather and Oracle's Crap GPU Rental Returns

Four Ideas (AI edition): Unexpected Impacts of AI Advancements

Quick Hits: OpenAI's Mammoth AMD Deal

Four Ideas (Macro edition): Interest Rate Shifts, Geoeconomics, AI Adoption, Travel Experiences

Four Ideas, Sunday Edition:

LLMs, Shifting Baselines, and .400 Hitters

Quick Hits: 85% Margins for Data Centers? Yes, Please

Four Ideas (Commodities edition): Geoeconomic Shifts, Cocoa Rally, Commodity Traders, Gold Outlook

Quick Hit: Blackstone on Data Center Bubbles

Four Ideas (Life sciences edition): FDA, AI, Drone Delivery, Health Systems

Rougher Notes, Sep 30, 2025

Four Ideas (AI edition): AI-Driven Investment Shifts

Data Centers: More Money, Fewer Buyers

Four Ideas (Macro edition): Geoeconomic Strategies and Industrial Policy Shifts

Four Ideas, Sunday Edition:

Quick Update: Appearances, Financial Flywheels, etc.

Four Ideas (AI edition): AI-Driven Market and Policy Shifts

Four Ideas (Macro edition): Interest Rate Divergence, EM Currencies, EU Productivity, Real Estate Dynamics

Four Ideas, Sunday Edition:

Four Ideas (Energy edition): Solar Engineers, EV Battery Sustainability, Grid Innovation, Emerging Markets