Every summer, I answer questions from the Eye on the Market client mailbag. Here’s this year’s version:
- Why is there such a long backlog for natural gas turbines, and do their higher prices make solar+storage comparable economically as a form of baseload power?
- Is China constraining exports of rare earths to the US and why did the DoD invest in MP Materials?
- What are you seeing these days regarding the YUCs, the MEGAs and US equity market valuations?
- What would be the real-world implications of a relaxation in certain US bank capital regulations?
- What do you make of Apple’s paper citing the problems that reasoning models currently face?
- What’s the latest on tariffs and unforeseen consequences?
- Charles Gave wrote that the US dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency. What’s your view?
- Do JP Morgan’s blockchain projects argue for building positions in Ethereum?
- What do you make of Sam Altman’s comments on fraud risk from voice authentication cloning?
- Where are your next fishing trips?
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Since 2005, Michael has been the author of Eye On The Market, covering a wide range of topics across the Markets, investments, economics, politics, energy, municipal finance and more.