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Jul 8, 2026 • 9 min read

Bitcoin Miners Are Quietly Becoming AI's Landlords

A dead Kentucky aluminum smelter, idled in 2022 because electricity got too expensive, just became the site of a 20-year, $19 billion AI lease with Anthropic. Its new owner is a Bitcoin miner. Across the sector, miners have signed tens of billions of dollars in AI hosting deals, not because they learned to build AI, but because they already own the one thing money cannot buy fast: an energized grid connection. Here is how weakness got repriced as scarcity, and where the real risk hides.

#Bitcoin Miners #TeraWulf #Anthropic

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Jun 10, 2026 • 6 min read

Blackstone's Bad Loans Went 0.6% to 4.7% in 90 Days

Blackstone Secured Lending entered 2026 with 0.6% of its loans on non-accrual. Ninety days later the figure was 4.7%, an almost eightfold jump that Moody's answered by cutting the fund's outlook to negative. The trigger was a Thoma Bravo software company. The backdrop is a record 6% private credit default rate and a Fed that war inflation will not let cut.

#Private Credit #Blackstone #BXSL

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Jun 2, 2026 • 11 min read

Anthropic Borrowed $36B. Broadcom Cosigned $31B of It.

Apollo and Blackstone are syndicating a $36 billion private credit deal so a shell company can buy Google TPUs and lease them to Anthropic. The senior tranches only price at investment grade because Broadcom, which co-builds the chips, has agreed to pay the shortfall if Anthropic defaults. A near-trillion dollar startup still needs the chip maker to cosign its debt.

#Anthropic #Broadcom #Apollo Global

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Feb 26, 2026 • 10 min read

The AI Wipeout Wall Street Hid in Your 401(k)

The $1.8 trillion private credit boom is colliding with the AI revolution, and retail investors are trapped in the crossfire. As software borrowers face margin collapse, non-traded BDCs are quietly halting redemptions to mask the true damage.

#Private Credit #AI #Software Startups

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Feb 25, 2026 • 8 min read

The Great EV Wealth Transfer

The current electric vehicle market slump is masking a much larger structural crisis in subprime auto lending. As private credit buckles under the weight of negative equity, a rare opportunity is emerging for cash buyers at wholesale auctions.

#Electric Vehicles #Market Analysis #Private Credit

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Feb 22, 2026 • 13 min read

The Silicon Debt Trap: Nvidia Funds Its Own Sales

Apollo just lent $7 billion so xAI could lease Nvidia chips from a shell company where Nvidia is the anchor investor. The circular financing loop powering the AI boom looks exactly like the structures that blew up Wall Street in 2008.

#Nvidia #Apollo Global #xAI

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Feb 6, 2026 • 8 min read

The Subprime AI Crisis: Why Your City Hall Holds the Bag

While eyes are on Nvidia's stock price, a quiet $300 billion shift to private credit is offloading AI risk onto municipal taxpayers. The Bank for International Settlements just flashed a warning light on the opaque debt fueling the data center boom.

#AI #Private Credit #Municipal Bonds

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Dec 31, 2025 • 8 min read

The $40 Billion AI Grid Heist: BlackRock’s Power Play

BlackRock's $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers marks the privatization of the American AI grid, creating a two-tier compute economy.

#BlackRock #AI Infrastructure #Data Centers