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AI = GPUs.
AI = data centers.
AI = power and grid upgrades.

But the next real bottleneck in the AI buildout won’t announce itself with a flashy keynote. It shows up as a procurement email no one forwards… until it’s too late.

It’s helium.

Not the party-balloon kind. The ultra‑pure industrial helium that quietly enables two industries that now sit at the heart of “modern life”: advanced semiconductors and MRI scanners. And right now, the global supply chain for helium is being stress‑tested by geopolitics in a way most investors aren’t pricing.

Here’s the uncomfortable part: roughly a third of the world’s commercial helium supply is tied to Qatar, and when shipping routes seize up, helium doesn’t behave like oil. You can’t just “reroute the barrels” and call it a day. The helium supply chain is built around a limited pool of specialized cryogenic containers and long, slow transit cycles. When containers get stuck, the pinch can worsen even before the molecule itself is “gone.” And even if conditions normalize quickly, the knock-on effects can linger because the system has to physically unwind.

So what happens next isn’t a Hollywood shutdown. It’s more insidious:

In chipmaking, helium matters most where precision is non‑negotiable. In advanced etching, fabs use helium to tightly control wafer temperature—because tiny thermal drift can wreck yields on chips that cost billions to design and fab.

Can they substitute argon or nitrogen? In many cases, the honest answer is: if a cheaper substitute worked, they’d already be using it.

But this is where the doom narrative gets the direction wrong. Even experts point out helium is less than 1% of the cost of a processed wafer, so the industry won’t shut fabs—it will pay more, and suppliers will prioritize critical uses (chips and medical) while less critical demand gets rationed.

That means the economic impact is likely to show up as:

AI is already a story about scale—more training, more inference, more clusters, more fabs, more tools, more redundancy. The industry is building “AI factories,” and factories don’t like missing inputs.

Even if helium doesn’t “stop the world,” it adds one more constraint at precisely the moment the market is hypersensitive to anything that smells like:

If helium tightens, you don’t want to be in the business of needing helium at any price while competing in a commodity-like market.

You want to be in the business of supplying and distributing scarce industrial gases under contract, or selling equipment that reduces helium dependency.

Industrial gas majors (pricing power + allocation power)

In a squeeze, these are the firms that sit between molecule and end user. They control logistics, purification, contracts, and allocation behavior.

MRI OEMs pushing “low-helium / sealed magnet” designs
A shortage accelerates the shift toward scanners that require far less helium and avoid refill risk:

Be clear-eyed: MRI is not their only driver. But if hospital buyers get spooked about helium availability, “sealed/low-helium” becomes a stronger selling point.

Users without leverage or long-term coverage
In a rationing regime, suppliers don’t cut off the biggest strategic customers first. They squeeze the fringe.

Public-market “losers” are trickier because the biggest chipmakers tend to be prioritized. So think of it this way:

The scoreboard:

This isn’t “AI is over.” It’s not even “chips are doomed.”

It’s simpler—and more actionable:

The AI boom is building on a supply chain where one invisible input can suddenly get expensive, rationed, and slow-moving.

And when markets are already jumpy about AI capex economics, even a “small” input shock can become a big narrative shock.

If you want to position for that, don’t fight the entire AI trend. Own the quiet gatekeepers. Avoid the fragile price‑takers.

As I told Schwab on Friday, It’s going to be hard to get anything much going on the upside while this war is still on…..

Friday turned really ugly when news broke about troops heading to the Strait of Hormuz. Then after the close we saw a bit of a pop when Trump said something about winding the war down. Good luck keeping up with the back and forth. I do think that, just like liberation day, this is temporary (unless we really do tip into stagflation which I don’t think happens).

This is News. Loud, uncomfortable, unavoidable News.

Most investors are still treating the Middle East conflict like every other geopolitical flare-up of the past decade — something to fade, something Trump can phone in a ceasefire on before the next FOMC meeting. That's the noise. Here's what's real: the strikes on Iran's South Pars gas field and the retaliatory attack on Qatar's Ras Laffan facility just changed the game permanently. Ras Laffan supplies roughly 20% of the world's LNG. QatarEnergy has confirmed "extensive damage." We're not talking about a price spike that reverses in six weeks — we're talking about 12.8 million tons of annual LNG capacity potentially offline for three to five years, $20 billion in lost annual revenue, and a global energy infrastructure wound that doesn't heal on a diplomatic timeline. Europe and Asia don't have a Plan B. And here's the part the mainstream financial press is barely whispering: Qatar produces roughly one-third of the world's helium — a critical, nearly impossible-to-store input for semiconductor manufacturing. With only ~45 days of buffer in the system and helium prices already doubled, your AI infrastructure buildout thesis just got a new variable nobody priced in.

The contrarian read here isn't to panic — it's to stop sleepwalking.

The market is currently pricing this as an inflation shock with manageable growth implications. Central banks are leaning hawkish, ready to hike into the disruption, and U.S. equities are somehow still shrugging. That complacency is the real risk. Tightening financial conditions are already worth nearly -0.6% of U.S. GDP growth — quietly erasing the tailwind from fiscal stimulus — and that's before the second-order effects hit. Watch the emerging market currency complex closely, particularly Pakistan, India, South Korea, and Taiwan, all of whom source 20-28% of their LNG through the Strait of Hormuz. If those currencies crack against the dollar, what begins as an energy price story morphs into a classic EM crisis: widening current account deficits, forced monetary tightening, dollar-denominated debt spirals, capital flight. That contagion doesn't stay contained to the developing world — it feeds back into U.S. credit spreads, risk appetite, and equity valuations in a loop that's very hard to break. The Strait of Hormuz is not just an energy chokepoint. Right now, it's the fulcrum of the global economy. Position accordingly.

Headlines like this are stupid…..

As I’ve said many times before, the Russell 2000 is a crappy index. Correction vs. bear market doesn’t mean anything, losses are losses. If you actually look at IWM it held right where it needed to on Friday and is above it’s 200 day moving average……

I wouldn’t own it, but if you were looking to trade it for a bounce this wouldn’t be a bad spot.

This is also dumb……

A covered call strategy wasn’t made for this moment. It’s outperforming the S&P because it happens to have the stocks the market is rotating to. According to Bloomberg it has 14.03% in tech while the SPY has 32.37%. If they sell everything off then the premiums you get from selling calls are a drop in the bucket compared to what you are losing on your stocks.

Gold is getting absolutely crushed this morning. In tomorrow’s note (unless something else interests me more) I’ll talk about why I think this is a buying opportunity

MEMY Holdings Update:

We’ve sold Crowdstrike (CRWD) Kratos (KTOS), Centrus Energy (LEU), Uber (UBER), and Energy Fuels (UUUU) , replacing them with Coherent (COHR), Applied Materials (AMAT), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Symbotic (SYM), and Micron (MU) (all 5% positions).

For a full list of MEMY holdings, visit:

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Today’s stock is ARM…..

It was a lone bright spot on Friday, BUT, it did fail at the 200 day moving average, setting it up as a short. It would need to reverse back above to potentially go long.

I had the pleasure of talking to Dividend Degenerates on why I like put spreads better than covered calls for income…..

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