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Start here. Learn the fundamentals of macro-driven investing—market cycles, economic indicators, Fed policy, and how to turn macroeconomic data into actionable investment decisions. The building blocks for long-term U.S. stock market success.

  1. 10 JAN

    The Shadow Pivot: How Trump Commandeered Fannie Mae

    Yo, imagine waking up and seeing the entire mortgage market flip upside down because of one post on Truth Social. We’re talking about the 'Shadow Pivot' of January 2026, where the Trump administration basically hacked the housing market to the tune of 200 billion dollars. Everyone thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were broke, but we did a forensic audit and found the receipts—it’s all hidden in 'Reverse Repos.' By turning these overnight loans into mortgage-backed securities, the White House bypassed Congress and the Fed entirely. This isn't just boring finance; it’s a high-stakes power move. We’ve got a Supreme Court ruling from 2021 that basically gave the President the keys to the kingdom, and a new FHFA director who’s literally a 'Twitter Philanthropist' ready to spend big. The result? Mortgage rates smashed through the 6% floor instantly, saving homeowners hundreds a month. But here’s the catch: it’s like slamming the gas while the Fed is slamming the brakes. We’re looking at a collision course that could reignite inflation and turn our housing market into a government-controlled experiment. This is the new era of 'People’s QE' and it’s absolute wild. Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #HousingMarket #MortgageRates #TrumpEconomy #FannieMae #Finance #RealEstate #看一看长视频

    16 min

  2. 8 JAN

    Why Elon Musk Believes You will Be Rich and Bored by 2030

    Forget everything you think you know about the next decade. Elon Musk isn't just making predictions; he’s laying out a brutal engineering roadmap for a new civilization. We’re talking about AGI—Artificial General Intelligence—arriving by 2026. Not decades away, but next year. By 2030, Musk believes AI will be smarter than all humans combined. But there’s a catch. We’re moving from a shortage of chips to a war for electrons. The US is currently losing the infrastructure race to China because we can’t pour concrete or string high-voltage lines fast enough to power the 'Gigawatt Clusters' these AI models need. Then there’s Optimus. Musk predicts these humanoid robots will be better surgeons than any human within five years. If a robot can do surgery, it can do anything. This leads to 'Universal High Income'—a world of radical abundance where the cost of goods collapses because labor becomes free. But it’s not all sunshine; Musk warns we might be 'bored out of our minds' or 'scared shitless' during the transition. From Tesla Roadsters that hover with rocket thrusters to Starships building Dyson swarms, the threads of energy, AI, and space are merging into one giant machine. The year 2026 is the fulcrum. The world is changing faster than our social contracts can keep up. Are you ready for the age of abundance, or are you worried about the Wall-E future? Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #ElonMusk #AGI #Optimus #FutureTech #ArtificialIntelligence #Tesla #SpaceX #EnergyCrisis #看一看长视频

    20 min

  3. 8 JAN

    The Invisible Hand Moving Trillions: Barclays' Secret Bet

    Imagine a world where money moves faster than a thought. Right now, the silent gears of a trillion-dollar future are turning. While retail investors are busy staring at Bitcoin price charts, banking giants like Barclays are quietly buying up the 'plumbing' of the global financial system. We’re talking about a fundamental shift in how money moves. Barclays recently invested directly in Ubyx, a startup building stablecoin settlement rails. This isn't a pilot program; it’s a bet on the foundational infrastructure of money. Why does this matter? Because it proves that stablecoins aren't just for DeFi degens anymore—they are becoming the back-end for institutional settlement. Meanwhile, Ripple is pivoting hard into enterprise payroll, aiming to move salaries and vendor payments onto on-chain rails. The narrative is shifting from speculative hype to structural inevitability. We're seeing a 'recalibration' where institutions rotate capital between Bitcoin and Ethereum based on data, not just vibes. The real story of 2026 isn't about the next 10x meme coin; it's about the quiet revolution happening in the backrooms of global finance as they wire up tokenized settlement. The foundation is getting stronger, and the old guard is leading the charge. Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #Barclays #CryptoInfrastructure #Stablecoins #BitcoinETF #Ripple #Tokenization #看一看长视频

    13 min

  4. 7 JAN

    2026 Forecast: Why Goldman Sachs Is Betting on Blackouts, Blue Collars, and Uranium

    Yo, imagine it’s 2026. The news says the economy is fire, but your homie with a Master’s in CS has been couch-surfing for six months while your electrician friend just copped her second investment property. Welcome to the great inversion. We’ve spent decades thinking software would eat the world, but in 2026, the physical world is biting back. AI isn’t just code anymore; it’s a monster that eats electricity, and our 1970s power grid is straight-up failing. This is why Goldman Sachs is betting on 'dirty' assets like copper and uranium. The 'Email Jobs' are getting hollowed out by AI agents, creating a 'jobless expansion' where companies make bank but stop hiring. Meanwhile, if you can fix a high-voltage transformer or weld a pipe, you’re the new elite. We call it the 'Hands Premium.' Globalization is also dead—it's all about 'Trusted Blocs' now. Places like Monterrey, Mexico and Tamil Nadu, India are the new gold mines because they aren't China. Even finance is changing; banks are swapping slow wires for instant stablecoins and tokenized assets. The vibe for 2026? Stop looking at the cloud and start looking at the dirt. The virtual world is officially handcuffed to the physical one, and the physical world is charging a massive premium. Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #2026Forecast #GoldmanSachs #Uranium #BlueCollar #AIRevolution #GlobalEconomy #看一看长视频

    14 min

  5. 6 JAN

    The Market Trend That Will Redefine 2026

    Listen up, because the world as we know it is hitting a massive reset button. By 2026, we’re entering what experts call an 'Interregnum'—that awkward, chaotic phase where the old neoliberal rules are dead, but the new ones haven't been written yet. It’s like a global tug-of-war. On one side, you’ve got geopolitics tearing everything apart. Nations are stop being 'friends' and starting to be 'transactional.' Even the US and China are in this weird 'managed coexistence' while everyone else is hedging their bets. But on the other side, technology is trying to glue us back together. We’re moving past basic chatbots into the era of 'Agentic AI'—AI that doesn’t just answer questions, but actually executes tasks and runs businesses. Plus, 'Physical AI' is finally putting brains into robots, meaning the factory floor is about to look like a sci-fi movie. This creates a 'Great Divergence' where central banks are all doing their own thing, causing massive market wobbles. The bottom line? The 'safe' path is gone. You’re either riding the AI wave or getting crushed by the geopolitical fallout. It’s a wild ride where efficiency is the only way to survive the 'Dissolution of Order.' Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #Economy2026 #AgenticAI #Geopolitics #MarketTrends #FutureTech #GlobalFinance #看一看长视频

    12 min

  6. 4 JAN

    The Openness Trap: Why Prosperity Breeds Stagnation

    Yo, imagine if your greatest win was actually the reason you lose everything. That’s the 'Openness Trap.' I’m Leo Wang, and we’re talking about Johan Norberg’s book 'Peak Human.' It dropped right when the US moved on Venezuela in 2026, and the timing is wild. Basically, every Golden Age in history—Athens, Baghdad, even the Dutch Republic—thrived because they were 'Open.' They traded ideas, people, and goods without fear. But here’s the kicker: once a society gets rich, it gets scared. Elites start building walls, literally and metaphorically. They trade 'Open Minds' for rigid rules and 'Open Exchange' for protectionism. Norberg calls this 'The Great Closing.' Look at Song China—they almost had an Industrial Revolution 700 years early, but the state got scared of change and shut it down. Now, look at us. Between cancel culture, trade wars, and digital borders, the Anglosphere is showing all the classic signs of a civilization about to go bust. We’re at 'Peak Human,' but the only way to stay there is to keep being risky and open, even when it’s uncomfortable. If we retreat into our shells, we’re just the next Rome or the next Venezuela. The 'Great Closing' isn't inevitable; it’s a choice we're making right now. Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #PeakHuman #Economics #Geopolitics #History #FutureTech #OpenSocieties #看一看长视频

    20 min

  7. 2 JAN

    The Day We Forgot How to Think: The Hidden Trap of AI Efficiency

    Yo, let’s talk about that weird feeling when you hit a wall while reading. You know, that brain-drain friction? Well, it’s disappearing, and that’s actually terrifying. We’re living in the age of the 'Frictionless Answer.' You ask a box, it blinks, and boom—perfect bullet points. But here’s the tea: that friction was the sound of your brain actually working. We’re facing 'Model Collapse'—a mathematical nightmare where AI trains on AI content, like a photocopy of a photocopy, until all the 'red hat' unique ideas are erased, leaving only a boring, 'blue hat' average. We're offloading our synthesis to machines and becoming 'Hollow Minds.' We might have all the info, but we have zero knowledge. The fix? Cognitive Sovereignty. We’ve got to stop being consumers of probability and start being judges of truth. We need to embrace the 'Manual Thinking' mode, interrogate AI like a hallucinating intern, and remember that our 'natural stupidity'—our ability to be weird and irrational—is actually our ultimate human feature. Don't let your mind become a statistic. Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #AI #CriticalThinking #FutureOfTech #CognitiveSovereignty #ArtificialIntelligence #Philosophy #看一看长视频

    13 min

  8. 1 JAN

    The 6.7 Secret to AIs Next Leap: DeepSeeks mHC Breakthrough

    Yo, what if I told you the way we’ve been building AI for the last decade is hitting a massive traffic jam? For ten years, the 'residual connection' has been the GOAT, the single-lane superhighway in every AI brain from GPT to Llama. But as models get huge, that one lane is buckling. Enter Hyper-Connections—the idea of adding multiple parallel lanes. Sounds great, right? Except it usually crashes the whole system. Training becomes a chaotic mess of 'NaN' errors and exploding gradients. It’s a total nightmare. But here’s where it gets wild. DeepSeek-AI just dropped a bombshell called Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections, or mHC. They figured out how to add those extra lanes and keep the system rock-solid. How? By using some high-level math involving something called the Birkhoff Polytope. Basically, they put mathematical guardrails on the highway so the information never grows or shrinks uncontrollably. It’s like a self-stabilizing bridge for data flow. And the engineering? Pure flex. They built their own language, TileLang, to fuse operations directly on the GPU chip. They managed to get this massive upgrade for just 6.7% extra training cost. We’re talking better reasoning, higher stability, and no more terrifying loss spikes. This isn't just a small tweak; it’s a fundamental shift from 'brute force' AI to 'precision design.' DeepSeek is proving that if you can tame the math, you can build smarter, more reliable models that actually scale. Want to know more? Watch the full video on my channel! #DeepSeek #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AIArchitecture #DeepLearning #TechInnovation #看一看长视频

    23 min
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    Leowang.net
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
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    Macro Alpha