Musk is worth $1 trillion with zero income. We’re spending $1.6 trillion on interest. CPI is on pace for 6.2%. This is the peak of the bubble.
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SpaceX debuted as the biggest IPO in history, raising $75 billion at a $1.8 trillion valuation before closing above $2 trillion — making Elon Musk the first person worth $1 trillion. Peter Schiff puts this in perspective: JD Rockefeller, the previous richest American ever adjusted for inflation, earned the equivalent of $2 billion per year in actual income from Standard Oil. Musk has essentially zero income — SpaceX loses money and trades at 100x revenue — making his trillion-dollar net worth entirely a function of bubble valuations driven by decades of monetary excess.
Meanwhile, the May federal deficit exploded 32% year-over-year to $293 billion, with interest expense surging 44% to $133 billion in a single month — $1.6 trillion annualized, consuming 30% of all tax revenue. That’s the entire federal budget from 1997 spent on interest alone. CPI rose 0.5% in May, putting 2026 on pace for 6.2% annual inflation — the highest since 2022 and potentially headed for 1981 levels. PPI came in at 1.1% for the second straight month, annualizing to 14%. Gold successfully retested its March low at $4,040 before recovering to $4,218, with mining stocks posting a positive divergence despite metal weakness. The Strategy death spiral deepened as Saylor diluted common shareholders to buy Bitcoin, destroying the “Bitcoin yield” narrative he built the company on.
Chapters:
00:00 Cold Open and Intro
01:23 SpaceX IPO Mania
03:18 Musk vs Rockefeller Wealth
06:31 Bubble Valuations Explained
09:59 Markets Week and Metals Drop
11:47 Gold Retest and War Narrative
17:20 Deficits and Interest Time Bomb
26:30 Inflation Data and Fed Boxed In
37:43 Other Markets Crypto and Wrap Up
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