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AI capex driving record corporate debt issuance
The argument was that massive AI-related capital expenditure is fueling record investment-grade corporate debt issuance, competing with Treasuries and putting upward pressure on yields.
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The story so far
CONTESTED · 547 MENTIONS · 303 EPISODES · 53 SHOWS
1 AUG 2025 — 19 AUG 2026 · 2D AGO
386 SUPPORT · 5 CHALLENGE · 156 MENTIONED
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES: THE MARKETS · 2 MENTIONS
48 EPISODES BETWEEN · 121 MENTIONS · 243 NOT KEPT
- 243 EPISODES NOT SHOWN
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES: THE MARKETS · 4 MENTIONS
- FORWARD GUIDANCE · 4 MENTIONS
- PROF G MARKETS · 10 MENTIONS
- AI unit economics lack economies of scale
- Crossholdings compromise Big Tech valuation metrics
- Scalable AI is low-margin, mass market
- AI market anxiety not permanently priced in
- Big Tech's shift to capital-intensive manufacturing
- Mag 7 insulated by strong balance sheets
- Lesser AI companies face debt-driven failure
- Leasing compute signals AI demand overestimation
- China's low-cost LLMs as a disruptive threat
- Parallels to dot-com bubble correction
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- BARRON'S STREETWISE
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY · 5 MENTIONS
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG · 2 MENTIONS
- THE POMP PODCAST · 3 MENTIONS
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 3 MENTIONS
- EURODOLLAR UNIVERSITY
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 3 MENTIONS
- THE TWENTY MINUTE VC · 2 MENTIONS
- PROF G MARKETS · 5 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 3 MENTIONS
- REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
- THE DIVIDEND CAFE
- CNBC FAST MONEY
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY · 3 MENTIONS
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW · 3 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 5 MENTIONS
- EXCESS RETURNS · 6 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- THE COMPOUND AND FRIENDS
- TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED · 4 MENTIONS
- REAL VISION DAILY BRIEFING
- ANIMAL SPIRITS · 2 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 4 MENTIONS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES: THE MARKETS
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- EXCESS RETURNS · 2 MENTIONS
- MASTERS IN BUSINESS · 5 MENTIONS
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY · 3 MENTIONS
- PLANET MICROCAP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- THE JULIA LA ROCHE SHOW
- THE POMP PODCAST · 2 MENTIONS
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY
- MONETARY MATTERS WITH JACK FARLEY · 7 MENTIONS
- Hyperscalers' hidden leverage hits $3 trillion
- CoreWeave's extreme debt and EBITDA gap
- AI industry's incestuous financing tangle
- Anthropic financially healthier than OpenAI
- AI build-out is a debt cycle, not equity
- Public bond markets are superior for epic projects
- NVIDIA's pricing power will inevitably erode
- BANKLESS · 3 MENTIONS
- THE DIVIDEND CAFE
- WSJ WHAT'S NEWS
- CNBC FAST MONEY
- AI capex driving record corporate debt issuance · THIS IDEA
4 EPISODES BETWEEN · 4 MENTIONS
- MOTLEY FOOL MONEY
- THE OPTIONS INSIDER RADIO NETWORK
- GOLDMAN SACHS EXCHANGES
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY
- BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE · 2 MENTIONS
- WEALTHION - BE FINANCIALLY RESILIENT
- TOP TRADERS UNPLUGGED · 2 MENTIONS
- ANIMAL SPIRITS
- THE POMP PODCAST
HOW THE SHOWS HAVE DISCUSSED THIS THESIS OVER TIME · NOT A PERFORMANCE RECORD