ddress this question of when does the bubble pop, I would point out that valuations among big tech AI companies are high, but they’re not crazy high . The 24-month forward PE ratio of the Magnificent Seven is 27x. In the year 2000, at the height of the tech bubble, the top 10 stocks traded at 52x forward earnings. So I would say, yes, a bubble is... See more

Worrying signs

There are growing, worrying signs that the optimism about AI won’t pan out.

An MIT report found 95% of organizations surveyed are getting no return on their AI product investments. A University of Chicago economics paper found AI chatbots had “no significant impact on workers’ earnings, recorded hours, or wages” at 7,000 Danish... See more

When I was jotting down notes for this piece I started listing out all the best observable reasons 2026 could be a bad year.

• the labor market is weakening


• AI capex can’t continue at this rate and is propping up the market


• stocks are expensive and multiples will contract


• private credit boogeyman


• inflation returns