The massive AI/data-center investment boom is pushing up key input prices, especially memory chips, and those cost increases are already filtering through to consumer electronics prices.
Most incremental US AI/data-center capex flows abroad rather than into US production, making Taiwan and Korea the predominant direct beneficiaries of the AI investment boom.
Most incremental US AI/data-center capex flows abroad rather than into US production, making Taiwan and Korea the predominant direct beneficiaries of the AI investment boom.
With nominal GDP growth running near 7% in dollar terms, accepting a 5% fixed nominal 30-year return is hard to justify; strong growth, persistent inflation and AI capex competition for capital all suggest long-term Treasury yields can continue rising.