When Capital Becomes the Bottleneck: The AI Complex's First Duration Stress Test

Weekly deep dive covering the Oct 10-17 selloff week and the Sep 27-Oct 16 publication gap (the letter was dark three weeks after a CI failure; gap events folded in). Paid-first: full text delivered by email; unlocks on the site 72 hours after publication.

Weekly Deep Dive · 2026-10-17

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On Sep 26 this letter argued the bottleneck had moved from prices into contracts. Three weeks later it moved into balance sheets: CoreWeave bonds at ~15%, neoclouds down 38-42% from August peaks, KOSPI -16% in a week — against TSMC/ASML/Samsung/Micron all-time records in the same week. Five shocks, none of them demand-driven: CXMT's 4F² server DRAM, Hock Tan's 'casino', the CoreWeave credit event, hot CPI with $110 Brent, and Anthropic's roadshow sliding from $2T toward $1.5T. Four transmission chains (funding cost → equity duration; China supply → structure; private-market repricing → public anchor; oil → rates → multiples), Data Tracker support, and six falsifiable gauges for the next 2-6 weeks.

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