Bo Nichols

The Guardrails Are Gone. The Bills Are Arriving.

Apr 13, 2026

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9 min read

The Guardrails Are Gone. The Bills Are Arriving.

The IMF says this is the worst position in 20 years to fight a crisis. Goldman just had its best banking quarter ever. OpenAI accused Anthropic of inflating revenue by $8 billion. And Michigan sentiment just hit its lowest reading in history.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The AI Boom Is Running Out of the One Thing It Cannot Print

Apr 13, 2026

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10 min read

The AI Boom Is Running Out of the One Thing It Cannot Print

Anthropic's uptime fell below enterprise standards. OpenAI scrapped a product to free compute. GPU prices jumped 48% in two months. The ceasefire collapsed overnight. And private equity has the same valuation problem as private credit. Nobody is talking about that yet.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The Week Ahead Will Show Whether Structure Holds Under Earnings

Apr 12, 2026

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11 min read

The Week Ahead Will Show Whether Structure Holds Under Earnings

Six stories dominated last week. This week the numbers behind them start reporting.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Six Things That Actually Mattered This Week

Apr 11, 2026

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11 min read

Six Things That Actually Mattered This Week

Capital sorted itself by structure this week. The winners weren't the ones with the best headlines. They were the ones whose plumbing held.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Private Credit Got a Short Button | CPI Hit | Consumers Broke

Apr 10, 2026

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10 min read

Private Credit Got a Short Button | CPI Hit | Consumers Broke

BlackRock is down 6% while its peers are down 31%. Pension funds are holding private credit while retail gates. Iran's toll booth is running at below 10% traffic. And retail just sold the rally that institutions drove.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Meta's $35 Billion Bet Has One Counterparty

Apr 10, 2026

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11 min read

Meta's $35 Billion Bet Has One Counterparty

Meta locked $35 billion into a single AI cloud provider that has been public for just one year, Kuwait is auctioning war-damaged pipelines to the same PE firms that built their portfolios on cheap energy, enterprise software lost $50 billion in a session as AI agents repriced the sector, and CFIUS refused to rule on national security when a Chinese investor's lobbying firm got the meeting the American startup couldn't.

Dio Pouerie, +1

BlackRock Built the Structure That Wins This Market

Apr 9, 2026

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9 min read

BlackRock Built the Structure That Wins This Market

Dio Pouerie, +1

Blackstone Just Pulled Hologic Off the Board

Apr 9, 2026

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11 min read

Blackstone Just Pulled Hologic Off the Board

Blackstone and TPG closed an $18.3 billion medtech go-private that ejects Hologic from the S&P 500 this morning, McCormick is merging with Unilever's food empire through a $65.8 billion tax-free Reverse Morris Trust, Levi's DTC revenue crossed 52% for the first time, and CMS repriced $13 billion in Medicare Advantage payments overnight.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The Ceasefire Hit. The Strait Didn't Open.

Apr 8, 2026

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13 min read

The Ceasefire Hit. The Strait Didn't Open.

Oil fell 14% but 425 tankers are still stuck. Iran is charging $1 million per ship to cross. Delta's refinery saved $300M while every rival paid full price. Mortgage demand broke before anyone called a truce. And Anthropic just locked in its biggest clients before the IPO even has a date.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Intel Just Landed the Customer It Bought the Fab For

Apr 8, 2026

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11 min read

Intel Just Landed the Customer It Bought the Fab For

Intel joins Musk's $25 billion Terafab two weeks after buying back its Ireland fab from Apollo for $14.2 billion, Ackman bid $63.5 billion for Universal Music through a blank-check SPARC vehicle, Gulf sovereign funds committed $24 billion to back Paramount's $81 billion Warner takeover with Apollo on the debt side, and insurers holding $1 trillion in PE-linked private credit face Treasury-convened regulators this month.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Moody's Just Confirmed What the Redemption Data Already Showed

Apr 7, 2026

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10 min read

Moody's Just Confirmed What the Redemption Data Already Showed

The BDC sector got its first-ever quarterly outflows and a negative outlook. OPEC production fell. SpaceX set June 8 as its roadshow date. And Amazon kept 80% of USPS volume.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Apr 7, 2026

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10 min read

Nobody Can Insure What We're Building

Insurers admit they can't price $20 billion AI campuses where GPUs depreciate in 18 months but project finance runs seven years, tonight's Hormuz deadline hits at 8 p.m. ET with Iran rejecting the ceasefire, Friday's CPI is expected to jump to 3.4% on energy alone, and earnings season opens into the first war-quarter guidance.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Dimon Named the Risks This Morning. The Data Confirmed Them by Noon.

Apr 6, 2026

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10 min read

Dimon Named the Risks This Morning. The Data Confirmed Them by Noon.

ISM prices paid hit their highest since 2022. Goldman's private credit fund cleared while every other major fund gated. Asia is rationing fuel. Dimon saw all three coming.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The AI Financials the Market Was Actually Waiting For

Apr 6, 2026

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10 min read

The AI Financials the Market Was Actually Waiting For

OpenAI burns $85 billion in 2028 even after doubling revenue. Anthropic reaches breakeven first. The secondary market already knew. Now everyone does.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The Week Ahead Will Show Whether the Cracks Are Spreading

Apr 5, 2026

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10 min read

The Week Ahead Will Show Whether the Cracks Are Spreading

Six pressure points hit markets last week. This week the data starts answering which ones are permanent.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Apr 4, 2026

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13 min read

Six Things That Actually Mattered This Week

Two oil corridors broke at once. Private credit hit its worst week of the cycle. The U.S. decided Hormuz was someone else's problem. And the secondary market already picked its AI winner.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Q1 2026: What Happened and What Comes Next

Apr 3, 2026

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12 min read

Q1 2026: What Happened and What Comes Next

A war, a liquidity test, a trade ruling, and a software freeze all landed in ninety days. Here is what happened, and what history says comes next.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The Market Priced One Oil Shock. It's Getting Two.

Apr 2, 2026

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10 min read

The Market Priced One Oil Shock. It's Getting Two.

Ukraine's drones cut Russian oil exports by 20% while Hormuz stays closed. Blue Owl disclosed 22% redemption requests. Pharma tariffs of 100% are being drafted. And the grocery shock lands right before November elections.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Apr 2, 2026

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11 min read

The AI Build-Out Runs on Chinese Parts

Almost half of U.S. data centers planned for 2026 face delays not because of chips or capital, but because Chinese transformers carry five-year lead times, the tariff regime targets those exact imports, the Iran speech gave markets direction without a plan, and SpaceX just set the date for the $1.75 trillion stress test.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Apr 1, 2026

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10 min read

$600M in OpenAI Shares. Zero Buyers.

Institutions passed on OpenAI at $852 billion. Anthropic demand is unlimited. SpaceX filed today. And AI data centers are six years away from the power they need.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The Last Cycle's Wreckage and the Next One's Capital

Apr 1, 2026

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10 min read

The Last Cycle's Wreckage and the Next One's Capital

OpenAI closed $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. SpaceX lined up 21 banks for Project Apex. M&A just had its best quarter ever. And a $575 million EV parts factory in Michigan is mostly empty.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The U.S. Is Walking Away Without Reopening the Strait

Mar 31, 2026

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10 min read

The U.S. Is Walking Away Without Reopening the Strait

Trump told aides he's willing to end the war before Hormuz reopens. Helium containers in the Middle East are boiling off. Gas crossed $4. And AI infrastructure just got its first investment-grade debt rating.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Mar 31, 2026

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9 min read

The Hidden Exposure Is Starting to Show

Companies that dropped war insurance are paying six to eight times peacetime rates. Middle East sovereigns are selling Treasuries for cash. GM is running trucks six days a week while idling EVs. And one bank is controlling the SpaceX retail window.

Dio Pouerie, +1

The Airline Shakeout Has Named Survivors and Named Casualties.

Mar 30, 2026

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9 min read

The Airline Shakeout Has Named Survivors and Named Casualties.

Trump threatened Kharg Island. Powell flipped the bond market in hours. Airlines are splitting into survivors and casualties. And 401(k)s just got access to private credit the same week it went under federal oversight.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Mar 30, 2026

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10 min read

The Redesign Is Already Underway

Treasury is moving into private credit oversight. The SEC and index operators are rebuilding the IPO market. The war's damage reached aluminum, helium, and cotton. And the biggest LBO since the financial crisis closed while private credit funds were gating.

Dio Pouerie, +1

Bo Nichols

The Guardrails Are Gone. The Bills Are Arriving.

The AI Boom Is Running Out of the One Thing It Cannot Print

The Week Ahead Will Show Whether Structure Holds Under Earnings

Six Things That Actually Mattered This Week

Private Credit Got a Short Button | CPI Hit | Consumers Broke

Meta's $35 Billion Bet Has One Counterparty

BlackRock Built the Structure That Wins This Market

Blackstone Just Pulled Hologic Off the Board

The Ceasefire Hit. The Strait Didn't Open.

Intel Just Landed the Customer It Bought the Fab For

Moody's Just Confirmed What the Redemption Data Already Showed

Nobody Can Insure What We're Building

Dimon Named the Risks This Morning. The Data Confirmed Them by Noon.

The AI Financials the Market Was Actually Waiting For

The Week Ahead Will Show Whether the Cracks Are Spreading

Six Things That Actually Mattered This Week

Q1 2026: What Happened and What Comes Next

The Market Priced One Oil Shock. It's Getting Two.

The AI Build-Out Runs on Chinese Parts

$600M in OpenAI Shares. Zero Buyers.

The Last Cycle's Wreckage and the Next One's Capital

The U.S. Is Walking Away Without Reopening the Strait

The Hidden Exposure Is Starting to Show

The Airline Shakeout Has Named Survivors and Named Casualties.

The Redesign Is Already Underway

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