What does Dire Straits’ 1985 Live Aid performance of “Money For Nothing” have to do with our current economy? James Thorne highlights how the lyrics reflect the turbulence of today in his November Market Insights, coming soon.
March Market Insights: There is no Bronze Medal
Markets are not pricing that reality. Investors still treat the AI build-out as marginal cloud spend or another overhyped software cycle. They debate whether Big Tech is “exhausting its available capital” or whether capex “must mean revert,” as if infrastructure were optional and competition courteous. They are using valuation models from the wrong century for the wrong game.