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Portfolio Update

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Brian Coughlin
Aug 09, 2025
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The market right now is pure madness.

Meme stocks are back, doubling in a week on nothing. Shitcos are ripping. Every day there’s some new junk company raising debt just to add bitcoin to the balance sheet and the stock takes off because… well, bitcoin only goes up, right?

AI mania isn’t slowing down either. OpenAI is reportedly being valued near $500 billion, and Anthropic’s closing in on $170 billion. They’re not even public yet, but based on those numbers, the market’s already treating them like future members of the trillion-dollar club.

And then there’s Palantir—the poster child of this whole circus. Roughly $4 billion in annualized revenue and somehow valued at $440 billion. This is easily the biggest bubble I’ve ever seen.

Palantir and the Illusion of Growth

Palantir and the Illusion of Growth

Brian Coughlin
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August 2, 2025
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And it’s not just Palantir. Across the U.S., valuations are stretched almost everywhere you look, with prices implying nothing short of perfection.

Meanwhile, China is the complete opposite story. Valuations are still dirt cheap, even as fundamentals improve and AI tailwinds become obvious. The gap between U.S. and Chinese equities has rarely been wider and that disconnect is exactly why my portfolio is positioned the way it is.

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