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The AI Trade, the Fed and the Next Phase of the Bull Market | Warren Pies

56 min•2 juli 2026

Warren Pies of 3Fourteen Research joins Excess Returns to break down the AI bull market, the macro risks investors should watch, and why the data still supports continued strength in semiconductors and equities. We discuss GPU demand, token usage, open source AI, Fed policy, housing weakness, oil, earnings growth, market valuations and the biggest risks to the current cycle.

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Main topics covered

  • Which bearish AI arguments actually matter for investors

  • Why regulatory risk may be the biggest long-term AI concern

  • How data center spending is crowding out housing investment

  • Why the Fed may struggle to cool AI-driven investment without hurting the labor market

  • What GPU availability says about real-time AI compute demand

  • Why open source AI is not yet replacing frontier models

  • How token pricing and OpenRouter data help measure AI usage

  • Why semiconductor stocks may still be in the middle of a major cycle

  • How semis are being valued differently than traditional cyclicals

  • Why Fed policy, earnings growth and market multiples are key to the second half of 2026

  • What oil positioning and refined product inventories say about macro risk

  • Why 3Fourteen remains constructive on equities despite rising overheating risk

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
01:04 Which bearish AI arguments have teeth?
04:00 Why AI regulation is the biggest long-term risk
07:03 Technology spending versus housing investment
11:03 How AI CapEx is showing up in inflation data
13:04 Why the labor market is more fragile than headline jobs data suggests
16:24 Why GPU availability is a cleaner signal than CapEx announcements
21:00 What token pricing and OpenRouter data reveal about AI demand
27:36 How 3Fourteen benchmarks frontier models against open source AI
30:00 Why the semiconductor selloff looked like a buyable dip
34:02 Are semiconductors still cyclical businesses?
38:08 Why Fed tightening could be the thing that ends the bull market
42:15 What the oil shock means now
45:47 Refined product inventories, crack spreads and energy stocks
47:18 Are earnings estimates becoming too optimistic?
50:49 Why the debasement regime still supports equities
54:05 Where to find Warren Pies and 3Fourteen Research

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