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Krystal Ball

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

What do you think is the Trump administration's motivation, though, behind exploring this type of deal?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

The other thing that was a huge red flag to me,

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

Can we put E4 up here on the screen?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

I had no idea about this.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

But Fidelity actually slashed its SpaceX minimum to $2,000 for retail investors.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

So basically, getting into an IPO for the offer price is normally a privilege that's reserved for big accounts.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

From what I could see, you needed a minimum balance of like $100K or something like that for Charles Schwab.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

Fidelity actually changed that.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

offering it to any customer with only two thousand dollars in a retail brokerage account a fraction of the threshold that has been quote historically gated access to hot new users that's the easy in the costly out is a 15-day calendar leash and penalties that escalate with each early sale until a third strike triggers a lifetime ban on fidelity ipos they're tied to your social security number so basically you can buy it with a very small amount of money in your bank account

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

But if you sell it, you will get banned sometime in the future.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

But this appears to have been a coordinated effort by SpaceX and others to let retail investors buy into the IPO.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

I mean, zooming out generally seems like frothy activity.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

I'm curious to see what you think.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

I don't know.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

I go back and forth.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

At the same time, I see all of these reports about people inside of these companies who say, well, we don't even use AI all that much.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

Then I also see people who, what is that company that spent half a billion dollars in a single month on anthropic credits?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

I'm like, okay, well, they're spending the money not for nothing.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

They're clearly buying it.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
6/8/26: Chips Stocks Hammered, Trump Floats Gov Stake In AI Companies

And despite DeepSeek being available, Anthropic and OpenAI do make billions of dollars.