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2723 claims. Exact words, named, dated, sourced.

Everything we’ve written down from the people who call the markets, grouped by the question they’re arguing about. These are views on the record, not scored bets; the scoreboard tracks the calls specific enough to grade. The bar on each card is the bull share of the bull-and-bear count. New claims land most mornings.

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Markets & Valuations

Where the indexes go and whether any of it is deserved.

The S&P 500+17 this week
Tom LeeMike WilsonEd YardeniChamathScott Galloway+78
Where does the index end the year? Targets and earnings math, with the drawdown warnings that come attached. 173 claims · 102 bullish · 45 bearish Latest: Deepak Mehra, 2026-09-10
The Crash Question+7 this week
Mike WilsonEd YardeniTom LeeAndrew Ross SorkinKyla Scanlon+34
Is this market a bubble about to answer for itself? Valuation alarms against the case that this time earns it. 56 claims · 12 bullish · 41 bearish Latest: Mike McGlone, 2026-09-10
Stock Picks+8 this week
Tom LeeJason CalacanisEd YardeniScott GallowayDan Ives+86
Single names on the record: who is pounding the table for what, with dates attached. 177 claims · 117 bullish · 31 bearish Latest: Richard Windsor, 2026-09-10
SpaceX+2 this week
David SacksCathie WoodDan IvesChamathTom Lee+20
The trillion-dollar IPO era: what the valuation proves, and to whom. 54 claims · 29 bullish · 17 bearish Latest: Peter Schiff, 2026-09-08
Prediction Markets+1 this week Betting on events goes mainstream: the growth numbers, and the argument over whether it is investing or gambling. 12 claims · 5 bullish · 5 bearish Latest: Mike McGlone, 2026-09-10
Private Credit+7 this week
Tom Lee+25
The shadow-lending debate: whether the boom in private credit is a durable asset class or the place the next blowup starts. 39 claims · 6 bullish · 20 bearish Latest: Jack Caffrey, 2026-09-10
Europe+5 this week
Scott Galloway+12
Europe squeezed between China and its own bills: write-off or the trade everyone gave up on too early. 19 claims · 11 bullish · 5 bearish Latest: Jens Eisenschmidt, 2026-09-08
Global Equities+7 this week
Mike WilsonTom LeeJeremy Grantham+37
Markets beyond the United States: who is buying the rest of the world, and why. 56 claims · 30 bullish · 11 bearish Latest: Mike Wilson, 2026-09-09
Tesla
Dan IvesChamath+4
The most argued-about stock on the board: deliveries, robotaxis, and the valuation fight. 11 claims · 7 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Todd Horwitz, 2026-08-24
The Fed & The Economy

Rates, inflation, jobs, housing: the machine underneath everything else.

The Fed+27 this week
Tom LeeMike WilsonEd YardeniMike NovogratzStephen Miran+87
What does the Warsh Fed do next: cut, hold, or hike, and when? Every other debate keys off this one. 178 claims · 7 bullish · 25 bearish Latest: Deepak Mehra, 2026-09-10
Inflation+10 this week
Tom LeeDavid SacksEd YardeniCathie WoodKevin Warsh+56
Does inflation resettle or reignite? The number that decides most of the other debates. 94 claims · 22 bullish · 24 bearish Latest: Jeff Currie, 2026-09-10
The U.S. Economy+38 this week
Tom LeeJason CalacanisDavid SacksEd YardeniCathie Wood+96
Recession, resilience, or ho-hum: reads on the consumer, jobs, and growth. 192 claims · 75 bullish · 64 bearish Latest: Deepak Mehra, 2026-09-10
Housing+2 this week
Ed YardeniScott GallowayJeremy Grantham+16
Foreclosures, affordability, and who is willing to call a bottom. 36 claims · 18 bullish · 11 bearish Latest: Brett Heath, 2026-09-09
Tariffs+4 this week Who actually pays for tariffs, and which famous minds have changed about them. 31 claims · 5 bullish · 9 bearish Latest: Susan Schwab, 2026-09-09
Canada+8 this week The Canadian read: jobs, banks, energy buildout, and the Buy Canada shift. 25 claims · 6 bullish · 11 bearish Latest: Susan Schwab, 2026-09-09
Trump Accounts The $1,000-at-birth investment accounts: rollout targets, market impact, and who benefits. 2 claims · 2 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Brad Gerstner, 2026-07-10
The Dollar+8 this week
Ed Yardeni+33
Debasement, reserve status, and where the currency everyone prices in goes next. 63 claims · 20 bullish · 31 bearish Latest: Jeff Currie, 2026-09-10
Energy & Hard Assets

Crude, gold, and the debasement argument.

Oil & Gas+48 this week
Tom LeeMike WilsonDavid SacksCathie Wood+105
Crude's path: supply shocks, record-low inventories, and targets running from $45 to $90. 231 claims · 95 bullish · 69 bearish Latest: Donald Trump, 2026-09-10
Gold & Hard Assets+48 this week
Mike Wilson+50
Gold and hard assets as the debasement trade: decades to run, or already crowded? 221 claims · 152 bullish · 27 bearish Latest: Mike McGlone, 2026-09-10
Uranium Spot prices, long-term contracts, and the nuclear buildout: who is bullish, at what level, and why. 4 claims · 4 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Richard Goldberg, 2026-07-22
Crypto

Cycle calls, price targets, and what bitcoin is or is not.

Bitcoin & Crypto+13 this week
Tom LeeMike NovogratzCathie WoodJeff ParkJeremy Grantham+36
Bitcoin and the crypto complex: cycle calls, price targets, and the argument over what it all is. 123 claims · 82 bullish · 23 bearish Latest: Mike McGlone, 2026-09-10
AI & Tech

The buildout, the winners, the jobs, and who pays when it wobbles.

The AI Trade+23 this week
Tom LeeDavid SacksJason CalacanisDan IvesEd Yardeni+163
Is the AI buildout durable demand or an overbuild? The capex, the losses, and who blinks first. 379 claims · 165 bullish · 133 bearish Latest: Matt Bloxham, 2026-09-10
AI Winners & Chips+10 this week
Tom LeeDavid SacksJason CalacanisDan IvesChamath+64
If AI wins, who gets paid? Chips, memory, and the picks-and-shovels argument. 131 claims · 75 bullish · 32 bearish Latest: Richard Windsor, 2026-09-10
AI, Jobs & Productivity+3 this week
Tom LeeDan IvesJason CalacanisChamathDavid Sacks+35
What AI does to work and productivity: acceleration, replacement, or both at once. 58 claims · 26 bullish · 12 bearish Latest: Tom Lee, 2026-09-10
The State Buys In
Scott Galloway+4
Should the state hold stakes in AI labs and strategic firms? Bailout, industrial policy, or precedent. 8 claims · 1 bullish · 5 bearish Latest: Min Gyeong-seol, 2026-08-12
The AI IPOs+3 this week
Mike WilsonDavid SacksJason CalacanisDan IvesScott Galloway+27
OpenAI, Anthropic, and the trillion-dollar listing question: when they go public, at what price, and who is buying. 56 claims · 27 bullish · 15 bearish Latest: Mike Wilson, 2026-09-09
More debates

Arguments still finding their crowd.

Fed
Kevin WarshEd YardeniStephen MiranTom Lee+46
96 claims · 5 bullish · 24 bearish Latest: Tom Porcelli, 2026-08-07
Ai Market
David SacksJason CalacanisChamathTom Lee+20
40 claims · 16 bullish · 20 bearish Latest: Kevan Mohajer, 2026-08-06
Ai Safety 19 claims · 1 bullish · 11 bearish Latest: Clem Delangue, 2026-08-04
Bonds
Ed Yardeni+7
12 claims · 5 bullish · 5 bearish Latest: Lisa Shalett, 2026-08-01
Oil Hormuz 11 claims · 1 bullish · 3 bearish Latest: Mike Pompeo, 2026-08-06
Apple
Dan Ives+2
7 claims · 4 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: MacKenzie Sigalos, 2026-07-31
Media Mergers
Chamath+5
Will the biggest media deals close? Named voices on Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery and what follows. 6 claims · 4 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: Scott Berg, 2026-08-14
Semis
Jensen Huang+2
5 claims · 4 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Jason Tsai, 2026-07-31
Eu Antitrust 5 claims · Latest: Fiona Scott Morton, 2026-07-31
Deals 5 claims · 1 bullish · 4 bearish Latest: Neil Campling, 2026-08-05
Airfares 4 claims · 3 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Bob Jordan, 2026-08-03
Markets Cycle 4 claims · 1 bullish · 3 bearish Latest: Mark Thornton, 2026-08-05
Situational Awareness Collapse
Tom LeeChamathDavid Sacks+1
4 claims · 1 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: Tom Lee, 2026-08-03
Jobs
Cathie Wood+2
4 claims · 0 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: Neil Dutta, 2026-08-09
Ai Financing
Dan Ives+1
3 claims · Latest: Ed Ludlow, 2026-07-27
Amazon 3 claims · 3 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Jim Cramer, 2026-07-31
Evs 3 claims · 0 bullish · 3 bearish Latest: Hannah Elliott, 2026-07-31
Nuclear 3 claims · 3 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Stephen Lecce, 2026-07-31
Politics
David Sacks+1
3 claims · 2 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: David Sacks, 2026-08-02
Autonomous Trucks 2 claims · 2 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Chris Urmson, 2026-07-25
Ai Open
Jensen Huang+1
2 claims · 1 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Tuhin Srivastava, 2026-08-08
Rates 2 claims · 0 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: Shayan Hussain, 2026-07-24
Concentration 2 claims · 0 bullish · 2 bearish Latest: Ed Elson, 2026-07-29
Oil War 2 claims · 0 bullish · 1 bearish Latest: Mike Pence, 2026-07-28
Oil Spr 2 claims · 2 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Mike Sommers, 2026-07-28
Boeing 2 claims · 2 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Kelly Ortberg, 2026-07-28
Boe 2 claims · Latest: Andrew Bailey, 2026-07-31
Ai Power 2 claims · 2 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Drew Marsh, 2026-07-30
Ukraine 2 claims · 2 bullish · 0 bearish Latest: Kaan Terzioglu, 2026-07-31
Fifa 2 claims · 0 bullish · 2 bearish Latest: Vanessa Perdomo, 2026-07-31
Single claims

On the record, not yet a debate.

BullishMarkets Watch 2026-08-05
The economic 'constellations' underpinning his case that policy is not particularly restrictive.
Corporate earnings are through the roof. They're doing great. The consumer is hanging in there. The labor market is hanging in there.
Neel Kashkari · Minneapolis Fed President · CNBC ↗
S&P 500 since this was said: ▼ -1.7% · 7,724 → 7,592 · as of 2026-09-10
BullishEnergy 2026-08-05
Record 17.93bn euro quarterly orders; only ~20 percent of gas turbine orders AI-related, no cancellations.
it's not all about AI so I'm not seeing that concern. I do see obviously that at the end everything has to be built but what I also see is a long term growth trend in electricity and this gives me also for the next years to come comfort
Christian Bruch · Siemens Energy CEO · Bloomberg Television ↗
BearishFx Dollar 2026-08-04
Asset owners questioning US policy predictability and Fed independence; Warsh may be the first chair in 45 years who must prove independence. EVENT: will, multiyear.
I think actually I think over the next several years you're going to see US dollar depreciation resume so I think we will get a weakening dollar.
Ron Temple · Lazard chief market strategist · Bloomberg Television ↗
NeutralRba 2026-07-31
calls the RBA cycle over; Australia among first to cut in 2027
“I think they're done. And I think that suffering economy suggests they could be one of the first to have to pivot to outright cuts in 2027”
Lauren van Biljon · Allspring Global Investments · Bloomberg ↗
BullishHealthcare 2026-07-31
big cap pharma and biotech turning to resilience and leadership
“We like health care a lot”
BullishIndustrials 2026-07-31
the less debated AI capex play
“we do like industrials. It's receiving a lot of the expenditure from these big cap tech companies”
BullishHedge Funds leaning · 2026-07-31
Citadel's discounted purchase of the fund's book; checkable vs performance figures
“It should lift the returns. It should be a sweet deal for them and for their investors.”
Hema Parmar · Bloomberg News · Bloomberg ↗
NeutralStarlink 2026-07-31
wont-claim: Starlink will not compete with Veon in its markets; CEO talking his own book, Veon holds the licenses and calls itself Starlink's biggest partner
“I do not see any intent of Starlink to come and do the groundwork of this type of business.”
BearishUs Debt 2026-07-30
his frame for why hikes cannot come
“The Fed is in a debt trap right now”
Brien Lundin · Gold Newsletter / New Orleans Investment Conference · David Lin Report ↗
BullishAi Music leaning · 2026-07-29
billion-dollar benefit to recorded music by 2030
“AI as a net one to two”
BearishVenture Capital 2026-07-28
what generative and agentic AI did to it in 24 months
“The VC model is broken”
Brendan Wallace · Fifth Wall · CNBC ↗
BullishFord Ev 2026-07-28
the 2027 universal EV platform pickup, CFO guidance, book disclosed
“aimed at about $30, 000 as the starting price”
BearishPositioning leaning · 2026-07-27
sitting in cash until the picture clears. wait-and-see posture, not a crash call
“I've got cash”
Steve Eisman · Investor; The Real Eisman Playbook host · CNBC ↗
BullishRecession 2026-07-27
macro resilience call. caveat on tape: sentiment already slipping
“I'm not worried about the economy slipping into recession”
BullishValuation 2026-07-27
pushing back on bubble comparisons. comparative claim, not a cheapness claim
“1999 and 2000 were far more expensive than we have today”
Jeremy Siegel · Wharton · CNBC ↗
BearishMargin Debt leaning · 2026-07-27
the caution inside his bull case. STRENGTH corrected firm->leaning: a scoped caveat from a bull
“I think the second big story out there is that margin debt still needs to work off that high level”
Tom Lee · Fundstrat Global Advisors · CNBC ↗
BearishCrypto Sentiment hedged · 2026-07-26
where the attention went
“The crypto bros can do whatever the hell they want. The girls have moved on to AI”
NeutralCrypto Adoption 2026-07-26
what stalled retail adoption. STANCE corrected bear->neutral: past-tense diagnosis, not a price call
“Trump came in and he karate chopped that with the meme coin”
BullishCrypto Portfolio 2026-07-26
his own book, disclosed. holdings disclosure, not a forecast; he puts only 20-40% odds on the Clarity Act in the same tape
“I'm long Bitcoin, Avalanche, Solana”
BullishTokenization 2026-07-26
endorsing the Fink thesis. attribution on tape: Larry Fink is right immediately precedes
“Everything's going to get tokenized”
NeutralGeopolitics 2026-07-26
Iran read of the situation
“They miscalculated once again dealing with President Trump”
Jack Keane · Retired 4-star US Army general · Fox Business ↗
BullishAnthropic 2026-07-25
AI revenue acceleration example. the number is Anthropic's, recited secondhand by Wood; not her holding
“annualized run rate go from nine billion to forty seven billion”
Cathie Wood · ARK Invest · Fox Business ↗
BearishSovereign Debt hedged · 2026-07-25
macro backdrop for metals. STRENGTH corrected firm->hedged: conditional on a rate breakout he only sees developing
“the risks for sovereign debt crisis are starting to increase sharply”
Willem Middelkoop · Commodity Discovery Fund · David Lin Report ↗
NeutralWealth 2026-07-25
retirement wealth backdrop. STANCE corrected bull->neutral: a statistic; the inference lives around it
“baby boomers have $90 trillion”
Ed Yardeni · Yardeni Research · Bloomberg Television ↗
BearishNatgas Europe 2026-07-25
European gas storage. low storage implies upward gas-price pressure; bear tag is about the supply situation
“lowest seasonal level in about five years”
BearishIntel 2026-07-24
Intel Ohio fab delay. his overall Intel take on tape is mixed-to-constructive; profit-taking, not collapse
“pushed that to 2030”
Carmi Levy · Independent tech analyst · BNN Bloomberg ↗
BearishGbp 2026-07-24
British pound valuation. magnitude modest on tape: some depreciation creeping in, not a crash call
“one of the most over valued currencies on our metrics across the G 10”
NeutralTmtg 2026-07-24
Trump Media performance this year
“Its stock is down more than 30%”
Gunjan Banerji · Wall Street Journal · CNBC Squawk Pod ↗
BullishOil Products 2026-07-24
product prices under strain. STANCE corrected bear->bull: worsening product prices is the directional payload; crack-inflated product prices, not crude
“diesel is 180 a barrel here gasoline is 140 dollars a barrel”
Matt Smith · Kpler · CNBC ↗
BullishEarnings 2026-07-24
earnings support for stocks. half of a two-sided framing that nets to his summer-stall call
“very bullish environment on the earnings”
Ed Yardeni · Yardeni Research · Fox Business ↗
S&P 500 since this was said: ▲ +2.4% · 7,412 → 7,592 · as of 2026-09-10
NeutralValue Investing 2026-07-24
value vs growth era. inverted impression if shown alone: it is the preamble to a bullish value case by a value manager
“This has been a terrible 15 years for value”
Charles Bobrinskoy · Ariel Investments · CNBC ↗
BearishMstr 2026-07-23
Strategy (Saylor) equity if BTC breaks. no timeframe; path partly conditional on BTC breaking 50,000
“the common stock will be worthless”
NeutralGold Vs Btc 2026-07-23
1-year scoreboard he cites. HOST-SPEAKING concession, immediately rebutted by his own longer-horizon stats
“Gold is up 21% over the last year. Bitcoin is down 45%.”
Anthony Pompliano · Professional Capital Management · Anthony Pompliano Podcast ↗
Bitcoin since this was said: ▲ +16.4% · 66,077 → 76,930 · as of 2026-09-11
BearishAi Revenue 2026-07-23
questioning where AI revenue to service the debt comes from. his own characterization; he concedes on tape it sounds alarmist; bearish force depends on the omitted $1.68T comparison
“the global software industry is less than 800 billion dollars”
Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At; Better Offline host · Prof G Markets ↗
BullishGold Miners 2026-07-22
Novagold valuation pitch, he co-chairs. MATERIAL CONFLICT: he announced the merger and becomes co-chair; his own promotional arithmetic
“you're buying gold in the ground at only $119 per ounce”
John Paulson · Paulson & Co.; incoming Novagold co-chair · CNBC ↗
Gold since this was said: ▲ +5.5% · 4,147 → 4,375 · as of 2026-09-11

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