In short: Stated as positioning: "it tells me you can't short stocks in dollars. Tells me you can short stocks in gold. It tells me I want to own industrials." The driver is the reversal of twenty flat years of US electricity generation plus private manufacturing construction currently down 18% year-over-year — the build hasn't even started. "I think iron ore, steel, all these — you cannot build a grid with dollar swap lines."
Not a ticker — a category. When he lays out his positioning, "I want to own industrials" sits right beside long stocks in dollars, short stocks in gold, and away from long bonds.
The evidence he leans on is counterintuitive: private manufacturing construction in the US is currently down 18% year-over-year, even with the AI boom running. In other words the rebuild everyone talks about hasn't actually started yet — what's finishing is the Biden-era green spending. That matters two ways. It means the industrial cycle is ahead rather than behind, and it means today's inflation is what you get before the building starts. "What do you think inflation in this country is going to be when construction spending is actually up? What do you think wage growth is going to be?"
The companies that benefit are the unglamorous ones — steel, iron ore, grid equipment, fabrication — because the thing being built is physical. He's said the same in earlier appearances through the infrastructure ETFs; here it is stated as the direct consequence of his own inflation forecast rather than as a separate idea.
1:16:52And so I look at this and go, it tells me you can't short stocks in dollars. Tells me you can short stocks in gold. It tells me I want to own industrials. I'd rather — I'm a more conservative guy anyway. So I look at, I think AI is going to be revolutionary. I also think it's going to be massively disruptive to employment.
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