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Reddit — r/wallstreetbets
· June 11, 2026 at 09:59
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The post argues that AI investment (Nvidia, SpaceX) is vastly overhyped, citing a Wharton paper claiming it requires a 2.7× productivity miracle or it’s a historic capital misallocation.
It warns that speculative capital has shifted from oil reserves to AI/tech just as the Strait of Hormuz closes, leaving oil buffers critically low.
Quality assessment: Semi-researched DD – links to actual academic paper and energy economist substack, but leans heavily on dramatic extrapolation and rhetorical framing; valid concerns but lacks direct trade-level analysis.
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Two economists at Wharton just published the understatement of the decade: AI investment requires a 2.7x productivity miracle by 2028 — or it's "the largest misallocation of capital in history."
Nvidia's Jensen Huang — who sells the shovels to every speculator in this gold rush — is telling investors that buying SpaceX at IPO could be like buying Amazon early.
To match Amazon's return, SpaceX would need a market cap of $4,442 trillion.
World GDP is $124 trillion.
Meanwhile, senior energy economist Philip Verleger notes the speculative capital that used to build precautionary oil reserves has migrated. To AI stocks. To SpaceX.
The Strait of Hormuz is closed. The oil buffer is six weeks from operational minimums.
And the so-called smart money is busy doing the maths that requires 36 earths.
Wharton/NBER: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35290
Verleger: https://philipverleger.substack.com/p/are-oil-markets-delusional