Another Week Markets Chose to Believe: Bond Vigilantes Stand Down as AI CapEx Goes Parabolic – A HyperNormal Situation Report May 22nd
This week, the market told two stories and chose to believe the second. The first played out in the bond market. The second played out in technology.
In this episode we unpack why the vigilantes won the week and then stood down, how Andy Burnham was forced to recant his economic platform without a single vote being cast, what NVIDIA's parabolic demand means for the AI CapEx broadening across Asia, why three trillion dollars of imminent listings will reshape portfolio allocation, and why Kevin Warsh's swearing-in at the White House sets up June 16 as the most consequential FOMC meeting in years. We also examine the K-shaped consumer split exposed by Walmart, the structural Hormuz toll question Iran is quietly institutionalising with Oman, and the gap between Rachel Reeves' price-cap proposals and operating reality on the British high street.
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