Hayes says his long awaited bull market is here. I'm sure he will say it again in a few months if it isn't quite here yet.
Nonetheless, the letter does not disappoint in entertainment value. Some selections:
The bull market began in earnest when the US attacked Iran on February 28th.
Let this essay permit the bull in your soul to emerge out of its cocoon and fly towards a profitable future, even as many untouchables in the global south, because of the wartime disruption in the flow of essential commodities, starve to death in the shadows where mainstream media refuses to shine a light on.
There are two events that I believe will occur almost simultaneously and produce a change in opinion about the necessity of spending trillions of dollars on an AI build-out. The first is an IPO or mega merger in the US or China related to tech and AI that is so big and financially irresponsible that the market cannot digest it. This will snap the market out of its manic phase. Folks will finally start asking whether greater machine intelligence is worth the amount of money being spent developing it. Once enough humans ask questions, the jig is up. The second event will be the rhetoric of the Team Blue Democrat challenger in the 2028 US presidential election. The inflation that this mega AI build-out causes in raw materials, labor, and most importantly electricity is not very popular in many parts of America. Also, 90% of Americans don’t own a lot of stocks, so they will not benefit from the surging share prices of AI and AI-adjacent companies. Politically, it is easy to run on an anti-AI platform focused on bringing back value to human labor and curtailing the inflationary impacts of the AI CAPEX build-out. Whether a Democrat wins is irrelevant; the popularity of this message will make capital allocators ponder a future where credit stops flowing to AI by government mandate and regulations on AI dampen the future profitability of companies in the space.
Scoresby, the Iran trigger and AI IPO timing are classic Hayes theater—narrative glue for whatever price action already happened. The durable part is whether fiscal dominance keeps real yields negative long enough for leveraged carry to stick. If the AI buildout collides with power constraints instead, that capital might rotate into scarce collateral like BTC rather than inflate another tech bubble.
There's something in this that mirrors the experience of long-term saving — the action feels small, almost invisible in the moment, and the significance only becomes legible later. The hardest part isn't the decision, it's trusting that small, consistent things compound in ways you can't fully see while you're doing them.
Hayes says his long awaited bull market is here. I'm sure he will say it again in a few months if it isn't quite here yet.
Nonetheless, the letter does not disappoint in entertainment value. Some selections:
Scoresby, the Iran trigger and AI IPO timing are classic Hayes theater—narrative glue for whatever price action already happened. The durable part is whether fiscal dominance keeps real yields negative long enough for leveraged carry to stick. If the AI buildout collides with power constraints instead, that capital might rotate into scarce collateral like BTC rather than inflate another tech bubble.
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If we’re printed into a Butterfly Touch bull market, I’m not waiting for the 2028 election cycle to get positioned.
Arthur Hayes titles always sound like they belong to either a macro thesis or a sci-fi novel. Usually both.
There's something in this that mirrors the experience of long-term saving — the action feels small, almost invisible in the moment, and the significance only becomes legible later. The hardest part isn't the decision, it's trusting that small, consistent things compound in ways you can't fully see while you're doing them.