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TESLA: “Amazing Abundance”. ( still 28 buys, 19 holds, 14x Sells!) Yes, clearly the Wall Street jury is still out! That shouldn’t surprise anyone. Lets just hope now a few of these retire and go back to writing about cars. Tesla is moving on!
Tesla is no longer being valued as a car company and, crucially, is no longer behaving like one. Think batteries, solar, power.
The near-term auto slowdown, margin pressure and market-share loss are being deliberately tolerated to fund a transition into physical AI, autonomy and robotics, frankly the only businesses capable of justifying a $1.5tn valuation. By retiring the Model S and X ( likely a scrabble now to buy!) to build Optimus at scale, launching fully unsupervised paid robotaxi rides in Austin, integrating xAI into its manufacturing stack, and doubling CapEx with $37bn of net cash behind it, Tesla is assembling the infrastructure for labour-replacing systems rather than chasing incremental vehicle growth. Energy storage has already emerged as a real profit stabiliser, now contributing over 20% of gross profit ( this matters!), while autonomy and Optimus remain large but plausible call options rather than fantasies. The buy case is not that Tesla sells more cars next year, but that it is one of the very few companies with the data, factories, balance sheet and institutional appetite to industrialise intelligence at scale. I would size exposure as wanting some optionality, not faith. If even one of autonomy or humanoid robotics works, today’s valuation ceases to look excessive and simply starts to look merely early. This is infrastructure optionality, not cash flows. You may ask, Why own it? Well, Labour replacement is the single biggest deflationary force of the next decade.
Tesla is one of very few companies attacking it physically, not just digitally.
Having Factories + data + cash + a willingness to offend regulators = real asymmetry.
• Nutstuff pairs it with: Energy equities (oil, gas, uranium): hedging the power intensity of AI.
•Semis & Chips / infrastructure (TSM, ASML, NBIS-type compute plays): picks-and-shovels.
•Hard assets: if Optimus works, money velocity explodes; you want scarcity elsewhere.
•What Tesla is NOT!!
•Not a “Magnificent 7 quality compounder”. •Not a near-term earnings story.
•Not something to believe in blindly.
Finally, Yesterday the “key man risk” argument about Musk came up again, sorry but to Nutstuff this is the sort of timid logic that mistakes conformity for opportunity . Musk isn’t a fragility; he is the system architect. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Starlink and now AI/compute are not personality cults, they are manifestations of a single, rare skill: the ability to identify civilisation-scale bottlenecks and then bully physics, capital and bureaucracy into submission until they break. You don’t get factories that look like alien ships, rockets that land themselves, global satellite networks spun up in a few years, or vertically integrated AI-manufacturing stacks by accident or committee from the normal safe or boring. The risk isn’t that Tesla depends on him; the risk is that without him it becomes just another cautious, optimised, slowly irrelevant industrial firm run by people who believe innovation can be scheduled. The personal-life sniping is intellectual laziness. Markets don’t price morality, they price tangible outcomes. Tesla’s advantage isn’t vibes, it’s first-principles engineering, manufacturing learning curves, software-defined vehicles, autonomy data, energy integration and an organisational culture that tolerates failure in pursuit of scale. Musk’s “controversy” is the same quality that lets him ignore consensus when consensus is wrong. History is unkind to the idea that world-changing companies are built by well-adjusted moderates with impeccable dinner-party manners. They are absolutely built by obsessives who don’t ask permission and don’t stop when told something is impossible.
TESLA: “Amazing Abundance”. ( still 28 buys, 19 holds, 14x Sells!) Yes, clearly the Wall Street jury is still out! That shouldn’t surprise anyone. Lets just hope now a few of these retire and go back to writing about cars. Tesla is moving on!
Tesla is no longer being valued as a car company and, crucially, is no longer behaving like one. Think batteries, solar, power.
The near-term auto slowdown, margin pressure and market-share loss are being deliberately tolerated to fund a transition into physical AI, autonomy and robotics, frankly the only businesses capable of justifying a $1.5tn valuation. By retiring the Model S and X ( likely a scrabble now to buy!) to build Optimus at scale, launching fully unsupervised paid robotaxi rides in Austin, integrating xAI into its manufacturing stack, and doubling CapEx with $37bn of net cash behind it, Tesla is assembling the infrastructure for labour-replacing systems rather than chasing incremental vehicle growth. Energy storage has already emerged as a real profit stabiliser, now contributing over 20% of gross profit ( this matters!), while autonomy and Optimus remain large but plausible call options rather than fantasies. The buy case is not that Tesla sells more cars next year, but that it is one of the very few companies with the data, factories, balance sheet and institutional appetite to industrialise intelligence at scale. I would size exposure as wanting some optionality, not faith. If even one of autonomy or humanoid robotics works, today’s valuation ceases to look excessive and simply starts to look merely early. This is infrastructure optionality, not cash flows. You may ask, Why own it? Well, Labour replacement is the single biggest deflationary force of the next decade.
Tesla is one of very few companies attacking it physically, not just digitally.
Having Factories + data + cash + a willingness to offend regulators = real asymmetry.
• Nutstuff pairs it with: Energy equities (oil, gas, uranium): hedging the power intensity of AI.
•Semis & Chips / infrastructure (TSM, ASML, NBIS-type compute plays): picks-and-shovels.
•Hard assets: if Optimus works, money velocity explodes; you want scarcity elsewhere.
•What Tesla is NOT!!
•Not a “Magnificent 7 quality compounder”. •Not a near-term earnings story.
•Not something to believe in blindly.
Finally, Yesterday the “key man risk” argument about Musk came up again, sorry but to Nutstuff this is the sort of timid logic that mistakes conformity for opportunity . Musk isn’t a fragility; he is the system architect. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Starlink and now AI/compute are not personality cults, they are manifestations of a single, rare skill: the ability to identify civilisation-scale bottlenecks and then bully physics, capital and bureaucracy into submission until they break. You don’t get factories that look like alien ships, rockets that land themselves, global satellite networks spun up in a few years, or vertically integrated AI-manufacturing stacks by accident or committee from the normal safe or boring. The risk isn’t that Tesla depends on him; the risk is that without him it becomes just another cautious, optimised, slowly irrelevant industrial firm run by people who believe innovation can be scheduled. The personal-life sniping is intellectual laziness. Markets don’t price morality, they price tangible outcomes. Tesla’s advantage isn’t vibes, it’s first-principles engineering, manufacturing learning curves, software-defined vehicles, autonomy data, energy integration and an organisational culture that tolerates failure in pursuit of scale. Musk’s “controversy” is the same quality that lets him ignore consensus when consensus is wrong. History is unkind to the idea that world-changing companies are built by well-adjusted moderates with impeccable dinner-party manners. They are absolutely built by obsessives who don’t ask permission and don’t stop when told something is impossible.
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The real bull case is that Musk is doing what almost no CEO even attempts: compressing decades of industrial progress into years by running multiple, mutually reinforcing systems at once energy, compute, manufacturing, transport, AI. That’s not key man risk, that’s key man optionality. If Elon was replaceable, none of this would exist. And that, inconveniently for the critics, is precisely why he’s such an incredible asset. ( Nutstuff).
Mean reversion!
GOLD & SILVER. Nutstuff said 2 days ago; spare me from the Reams and reams of utter “BS” now being spouted by various Sell side firms and fin-twitters. Oh, of course JP Morgan suddenly has an $8000 target for Gold and prob even more for Silver. The only question for anyone to ask is what do these do from here? what really is the likelihood of another 50-100% from here at $38 trillion combined and > 40% of GDP …..?
I know another much smaller asset I would rather have a bet on and if I am right, own some PANDORA / PNDRY US as a hedge too!
Then there is the New Fed chair!
For those thinking Bitcoin & Mean reversion:
Interesting to note Kevin Warsh was an investor in a cryptocurrency project called Basis, which described itself as an algorithmic central bank. He has also served as an adviser for Electric Capital.
…Just saying ….
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GOLD & SILVER. Nutstuff said 2 days ago; spare me from the Reams and reams of utter “BS” now being spouted by various Sell side firms and fin-twitters. Oh, of course JP Morgan suddenly has an $8000 target for Gold and prob even more for Silver. The only question for anyone to ask is what do these do from here? what really is the likelihood of another 50-100% from here at $38 trillion combined and > 40% of GDP …..?
I know another much smaller asset I would rather have a bet on and if I am right, own some PANDORA / PNDRY US as a hedge too!
Then there is the New Fed chair!
For those thinking Bitcoin & Mean reversion:
Interesting to note Kevin Warsh was an investor in a cryptocurrency project called Basis, which described itself as an algorithmic central bank. He has also served as an adviser for Electric Capital.
…Just saying ….
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Makes total sense..
USAR US acting well.
UEC & LTBR US Nutstuff still maintains could be beneficiaries here….
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/trump-launches-12-billion-minerals-stockpile-to-counter-china
Trump plans to launch a $12 billion strategic critical minerals stockpile, called Project Vault, designed to shield US manufacturers from supply shocks and reduce reliance on China, combining $1.67 billion of private capital with a $10 billion loan from the US Export Import Bank to procure and store materials such as gallium, cobalt and rare earths used across automotive, technology, aerospace and energy industries; backed by major companies including GM, Boeing, Google and Stellantis and operated with the help of global commodities traders, the initiative mirrors the strategic oil reserve model, allowing participating firms to lock in prices, manage volatility and access supplies during disruptions, while reinforcing a broader US push to diversify mineral supply chains after Chinese export controls exposed significant economic vulnerabilities.
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USAR US acting well.
UEC & LTBR US Nutstuff still maintains could be beneficiaries here….
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/trump-launches-12-billion-minerals-stockpile-to-counter-china
Trump plans to launch a $12 billion strategic critical minerals stockpile, called Project Vault, designed to shield US manufacturers from supply shocks and reduce reliance on China, combining $1.67 billion of private capital with a $10 billion loan from the US Export Import Bank to procure and store materials such as gallium, cobalt and rare earths used across automotive, technology, aerospace and energy industries; backed by major companies including GM, Boeing, Google and Stellantis and operated with the help of global commodities traders, the initiative mirrors the strategic oil reserve model, allowing participating firms to lock in prices, manage volatility and access supplies during disruptions, while reinforcing a broader US push to diversify mineral supply chains after Chinese export controls exposed significant economic vulnerabilities.
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Trump to Launch $12 Billion Critical Mineral Stockpile to Blunt Reliance on China
President Donald Trump is set to launch a strategic critical-minerals stockpile with $12 billion in seed money, a bid to insulate manufacturers from supply shocks as the US works to slash its reliance on Chinese rare earths and other metals.
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ORCADIAN/ ORCA LN a North Sea Oil company partnering with a “RWA” Realword Asset tokenisation protocol?
Start thinking through the laterals for this.
https://orcadian.energy/cln-update-issue-of-equity-total-voting-rights/
“This is absolutely not a meme coin pretending to be an energy company; think of this as an oil field plugging itself into a crypto wallet”.
Think about it for 2 key Groups:
For energy investors, Orcadian is a conventional North Sea developer using an unconventional funding tool. It owns real licences, real projects and future production, with the added kicker of large accumulated tax losses that allow early revenues to flow with minimal tax drag. The partnership with Albion Labs is simply capital discipline: instead of repeated equity dilution, Orcadian monetises small, defined slices of future cash flow to fund development while retaining control of the underlying assets. This is orthodox energy economics with smarter balance-sheet maths.
For crypto and digital-asset investors, Orcadian is what “real-world assets on-chain” are meant to look like. Albion Labs is the energy protocol ,
the translation layer taking oil and gas revenues (royalties, revenue shares, yield streams), wrapping them in proper legal and regulatory structure, and enabling them to exist as on-chain income assets. This is not narrative or meme-driven utility; it is barrels turning into cash and cash turning into yield on-chain. If RWAs are the bridge from speculation to substance, ORCA via Albion Labs is that bridge being actively used.
ORCADIAN/ ORCA LN a North Sea Oil company partnering with a “RWA” Realword Asset tokenisation protocol?
Start thinking through the laterals for this.
https://orcadian.energy/cln-update-issue-of-equity-total-voting-rights/
“This is absolutely not a meme coin pretending to be an energy company; think of this as an oil field plugging itself into a crypto wallet”.
Think about it for 2 key Groups:
For energy investors, Orcadian is a conventional North Sea developer using an unconventional funding tool. It owns real licences, real projects and future production, with the added kicker of large accumulated tax losses that allow early revenues to flow with minimal tax drag. The partnership with Albion Labs is simply capital discipline: instead of repeated equity dilution, Orcadian monetises small, defined slices of future cash flow to fund development while retaining control of the underlying assets. This is orthodox energy economics with smarter balance-sheet maths.
For crypto and digital-asset investors, Orcadian is what “real-world assets on-chain” are meant to look like. Albion Labs is the energy protocol ,
the translation layer taking oil and gas revenues (royalties, revenue shares, yield streams), wrapping them in proper legal and regulatory structure, and enabling them to exist as on-chain income assets. This is not narrative or meme-driven utility; it is barrels turning into cash and cash turning into yield on-chain. If RWAs are the bridge from speculation to substance, ORCA via Albion Labs is that bridge being actively used.
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RIG buying VALARIS!
Honestly this deal is not a one-off curiosity; it is absolutely the template for how capital reallocates when constraint finally ‘trumps’ narrative. Offshore drillers have survived a decade of starvation, wrote off balance sheets, scrapped fleets and outlasted the ESG purge and are now finally discovering that scarcity has a price. A $5.8bn all-stock take-out is not a cyclical top signal but a simple reset of terminal value: public markets were still pricing decline while corporate buyers are underwriting permanence. Transocean, Noble and Seadrill still trade on optically cautious multiples despite replacement costs and forward cash flows that private buyers already capitalise at materially higher rates. The same mispricing runs through offshore services and OSVs, specialty shipping, and yes even coal ( see thoughts earlier!), all where listed equities sit on 2–3× cash flow while private capital quietly assumes terminal value and harvests yield. I’d own these assets not because they are fashionable, but simply because they are real and cannot be replaced. This is not really a bet on oil prices ( clearly not in 2026! ) or on macro heroics; it is simple arithmetic. When public multiples imply extinction and take-out multiples imply some value of infrastructure, I salivate!
Honestly this deal is not a one-off curiosity; it is absolutely the template for how capital reallocates when constraint finally ‘trumps’ narrative. Offshore drillers have survived a decade of starvation, wrote off balance sheets, scrapped fleets and outlasted the ESG purge and are now finally discovering that scarcity has a price. A $5.8bn all-stock take-out is not a cyclical top signal but a simple reset of terminal value: public markets were still pricing decline while corporate buyers are underwriting permanence. Transocean, Noble and Seadrill still trade on optically cautious multiples despite replacement costs and forward cash flows that private buyers already capitalise at materially higher rates. The same mispricing runs through offshore services and OSVs, specialty shipping, and yes even coal ( see thoughts earlier!), all where listed equities sit on 2–3× cash flow while private capital quietly assumes terminal value and harvests yield. I’d own these assets not because they are fashionable, but simply because they are real and cannot be replaced. This is not really a bet on oil prices ( clearly not in 2026! ) or on macro heroics; it is simple arithmetic. When public multiples imply extinction and take-out multiples imply some value of infrastructure, I salivate!
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HELIUM/HNT: A 60%+ move off the lows in the last weeks says a few still care. WHY? Well see the dashboard below, the 124k hotspots can be 1m, and the now 3.4m users can be be 30m! (>1m+ added in last mth!) I would expect 5M+ daily users by year-end, with the potential for exponential growth as AT&T unthrottles subscriber access (both contract expansion and technical integration are accelerating now).
Right now fact =3.4m users connected to Helium today alone. The US population is 340m. So simplistically, 1 in every 100 Americans connected to Helium. That’s nothing short of incredible.
If you’re asking me a simple question; which DePIN project has crossed the line from crypto theatre to actual infrastructure, the answer still remains Helium. Not because the token has behaved well, it really hasn’t, but because it is one of the very few networks selling a service non-crypto users actually pay for. Wireless connectivity is not a vibe; it’s plumbing. Helium’s mobile offload agreements, carrier partnerships and $20m+ annualised revenue place it in a different category from most DePIN experiments still subsidising activity with emissions. Others like Render sell GPU cycles. Filecoin sells storage. Hivemapper sells mapping data. All are interesting. But Helium is closest to being a decentralised telecom layer with real-world demand elasticity. The brutal truth, however, is this: revenue is not yet large enough relative to token supply to force valuation discipline. The opportunity lies precisely there. If burns sustainably exceed emissions and mobile adoption compounds, the token becomes infrastructure equity priced like a distressed altcoin. If not, it remains a clever experiment. In DePIN, the question is simple: who is paying, and would they pay if the token disappeared tomorrow? Helium at least has an answer to that question. Most others honestly still don’t.
For those who want detail:
The tokenomics tell the story: as of Feb 14, daily burns (~46K HNT) are running at roughly 2x daily emissions (~22K HNT), producing a net supply reduction of ~54K HNT per day. That's approximately 5–6% annual supply contraction at current rates and accelerating. The market has started to re-price this over the past few days, but the network remains significantly undervalued on an infrastructure basis, with almost zero visibility across traditional telecom analysts.
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Right now fact =3.4m users connected to Helium today alone. The US population is 340m. So simplistically, 1 in every 100 Americans connected to Helium. That’s nothing short of incredible.
If you’re asking me a simple question; which DePIN project has crossed the line from crypto theatre to actual infrastructure, the answer still remains Helium. Not because the token has behaved well, it really hasn’t, but because it is one of the very few networks selling a service non-crypto users actually pay for. Wireless connectivity is not a vibe; it’s plumbing. Helium’s mobile offload agreements, carrier partnerships and $20m+ annualised revenue place it in a different category from most DePIN experiments still subsidising activity with emissions. Others like Render sell GPU cycles. Filecoin sells storage. Hivemapper sells mapping data. All are interesting. But Helium is closest to being a decentralised telecom layer with real-world demand elasticity. The brutal truth, however, is this: revenue is not yet large enough relative to token supply to force valuation discipline. The opportunity lies precisely there. If burns sustainably exceed emissions and mobile adoption compounds, the token becomes infrastructure equity priced like a distressed altcoin. If not, it remains a clever experiment. In DePIN, the question is simple: who is paying, and would they pay if the token disappeared tomorrow? Helium at least has an answer to that question. Most others honestly still don’t.
For those who want detail:
The tokenomics tell the story: as of Feb 14, daily burns (~46K HNT) are running at roughly 2x daily emissions (~22K HNT), producing a net supply reduction of ~54K HNT per day. That's approximately 5–6% annual supply contraction at current rates and accelerating. The market has started to re-price this over the past few days, but the network remains significantly undervalued on an infrastructure basis, with almost zero visibility across traditional telecom analysts.
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Own Stuff not Fluff!
2026 so far has reassuringly been about “needs vs wants” and about companies that Make stuff and /Or own stuff that cant easily be disintermediated or replaced Vs those that dont.
The North Sea / UK Energy is this with a massive political value arbitrage to play for, and I have been on this for 2yrs+! ( see article here), I think climate lunacy and ESG ideology is approaching a head on car smash with economic reality!
Then think of Offshore drillers ( only 3-4 real co’s left in the world now owning and operating mega rigs, and noone will build another billion dollar rig or drill-ship again!) .
Spare me the cr*p about a world free of fossil fuels, we are bored of this being seen as reality anytime soon.
Now ask me about all the stuff people own is huge in indexes and everyone is desperate to average down on ; whether some Software business @30x revenues gets disinter-mediated by three smart guys or their AI AGENTS in a garage in LA or Tel Aviv and I’ll tell you I don’t have a clue and its almost impossible to know!
So…..I think I feel happy owning and knowing more about what I own.
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2026 so far has reassuringly been about “needs vs wants” and about companies that Make stuff and /Or own stuff that cant easily be disintermediated or replaced Vs those that dont.
The North Sea / UK Energy is this with a massive political value arbitrage to play for, and I have been on this for 2yrs+! ( see article here), I think climate lunacy and ESG ideology is approaching a head on car smash with economic reality!
Then think of Offshore drillers ( only 3-4 real co’s left in the world now owning and operating mega rigs, and noone will build another billion dollar rig or drill-ship again!) .
Spare me the cr*p about a world free of fossil fuels, we are bored of this being seen as reality anytime soon.
Now ask me about all the stuff people own is huge in indexes and everyone is desperate to average down on ; whether some Software business @30x revenues gets disinter-mediated by three smart guys or their AI AGENTS in a garage in LA or Tel Aviv and I’ll tell you I don’t have a clue and its almost impossible to know!
So…..I think I feel happy owning and knowing more about what I own.
A YTD snapshot of the Nutstuff Portfolio leaders.
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www.nutstuff.co.uk will be able to see YTD Nutstuff portfolio has 8 Energy/ UK 🇬🇧 posns +>30%
Nutstuff 3mins here…
45 years of US–Iran hostility did not begin with a tweet, nor will it end with one; it is the slow grind of revolution meeting empire, proxy meeting aircraft carrier, sanction meeting smuggler. From the hostages in 1979 to Beirut ’83, from Khobar to the Iraq insurgency, from JCPOA paperwork to Soleimani’s funeral procession, each administration has tried a different lever, absorb, retaliate, contain, sanction, escalate and none has produced finality because there is no clean “finish” to a structural rivalry. Iran cannot defeat the United States conventionally; the United States cannot remake Iran cheaply; so the contest lives in the grey zone: insurance markets, militias, shipping lanes, enrichment percentages, election cycles. Hormuz, in that sense, is less a battlefield than a mirror, it reflects how entangled the real world is. Twenty million barrels a day is not an abstraction; it is diesel for Indian buses, feedstock for Korean petrochemicals, jet fuel for European holidays, fertiliser for African crops. Three-quarters of humanity lives east of Istanbul and feels the price before Washington does. That is why closing a strait is about Insurers actuarial tables before it is about frigates. The investable conclusion follows the history: own what survives prolonged uncertainty rather than betting on decisive victory. Swiss Francs & Energy cashflows over narratives. Defence order books over campaign slogans. Gold & Silver over promises. Maybe now USDC & Zcash for “get my money the hell out”. Selective duration as shock absorber. Avoid balance sheets that assume permanently cheap freight and permanently calm seas. This is not a weekend trade; it is a reminder that geopolitics compounds, and that in the Middle East invoices are paid in spreads, barrels and credibility never in speeches!
“ dubai and abu dhabi just HK: “ see they closed their stock markets march 2 and 3. Am guessing they don't think this is done by GLOBEX open in 6 hours...”
“ I Moved to Dubai for tax shelter and now I’m in a bomb shelter”….
Andrew Tate, not my thing but you have to admire his blitz spirit: https://x.com/cobratate/status/2027912663452291347?s=48
Dubai/UAE: a thought: Here is what matters. When France gets bombed, the French stay because it is France. When Ukraine gets bombed, Ukrainians stay because it is Ukraine.
When the UAE gets bombed, the ten million people who make up eighty eight percent of its population have a decision to make. And that decision has a very short fuse. A country where nearly nine in ten residents can leave is not a nation in the traditional sense. It is a special economic zone with a flag. The moment the value proposition inverts, the population does not resist. This is not a war of attrition. It might be a “bank run” on a country. Once of course the airport opens!
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45 years of US–Iran hostility did not begin with a tweet, nor will it end with one; it is the slow grind of revolution meeting empire, proxy meeting aircraft carrier, sanction meeting smuggler. From the hostages in 1979 to Beirut ’83, from Khobar to the Iraq insurgency, from JCPOA paperwork to Soleimani’s funeral procession, each administration has tried a different lever, absorb, retaliate, contain, sanction, escalate and none has produced finality because there is no clean “finish” to a structural rivalry. Iran cannot defeat the United States conventionally; the United States cannot remake Iran cheaply; so the contest lives in the grey zone: insurance markets, militias, shipping lanes, enrichment percentages, election cycles. Hormuz, in that sense, is less a battlefield than a mirror, it reflects how entangled the real world is. Twenty million barrels a day is not an abstraction; it is diesel for Indian buses, feedstock for Korean petrochemicals, jet fuel for European holidays, fertiliser for African crops. Three-quarters of humanity lives east of Istanbul and feels the price before Washington does. That is why closing a strait is about Insurers actuarial tables before it is about frigates. The investable conclusion follows the history: own what survives prolonged uncertainty rather than betting on decisive victory. Swiss Francs & Energy cashflows over narratives. Defence order books over campaign slogans. Gold & Silver over promises. Maybe now USDC & Zcash for “get my money the hell out”. Selective duration as shock absorber. Avoid balance sheets that assume permanently cheap freight and permanently calm seas. This is not a weekend trade; it is a reminder that geopolitics compounds, and that in the Middle East invoices are paid in spreads, barrels and credibility never in speeches!
“ dubai and abu dhabi just HK: “ see they closed their stock markets march 2 and 3. Am guessing they don't think this is done by GLOBEX open in 6 hours...”
“ I Moved to Dubai for tax shelter and now I’m in a bomb shelter”….
Andrew Tate, not my thing but you have to admire his blitz spirit: https://x.com/cobratate/status/2027912663452291347?s=48
Dubai/UAE: a thought: Here is what matters. When France gets bombed, the French stay because it is France. When Ukraine gets bombed, Ukrainians stay because it is Ukraine.
When the UAE gets bombed, the ten million people who make up eighty eight percent of its population have a decision to make. And that decision has a very short fuse. A country where nearly nine in ten residents can leave is not a nation in the traditional sense. It is a special economic zone with a flag. The moment the value proposition inverts, the population does not resist. This is not a war of attrition. It might be a “bank run” on a country. Once of course the airport opens!
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DUBAI IS HERE TO STAY