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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
You know, we had a very, like, I'm not even sure if there was, if we had a recession, it was a very mild recession.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So, you know, this didn't like cause like a 2009, you know, style recession.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
But we took the froth out.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And I think a lot of that was IPOs that had happened.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And like, sort of, we talk about, you know, token unlocks in crypto, right?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
In a bear market, you don't want to be in an asset that's sort of unlocking.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And there were tons of that happening.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So this is something to pay attention to with like Mag7, for example.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Yeah.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
A lot of the Mag7 is not able to do buybacks right now because they're using their free cash flow to invest in CapEx.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So that is a shift.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
If you have some big IPOs coming, we're going to see similar kind of unlock type period at a time when there's less buybacks happening in the market.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So I think that's something to pay attention to.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
That sort of lines up a little bit with .com.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So I think, you know, pay attention to the structure out there, pay attention to the leaders and sort of, you know, the equal weight S&P 500 has not gotten back to all time highs.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
If we don't see more participation from the rest of the market, I think that also lines up with what we saw in dot com.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So, yeah, it's a lot of factors, but definitely something to keep an eye on.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
We are more focused on the crypto markets and how that is sort of.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
interplaying with what we're seeing in TradFi.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Crypto has had a pretty big rally here.