Rigatoni Capital Podcast

Ken Griffin of Citadel thinks we are almost certainly in an AI bubble even as he stays bullish on where the technology ends up, and his own view has swung from calling AI garbage in January to depressed by spring to a...

I spend most of my time preaching long-term buy and hold, so raising a big cash pile probably sounds off-brand. But a professional buy the dipper without cash is not really a buy the dipper. I continue to watch the AI...

Always fun to see investors trying to piece together the same puzzle right now, why the AI infrastructure sell-off is starting?? But there are many reasons, not just one. One important factor is just good ‘ole...

September CPI came in hot at 3.7% against a 3.6% estimate, with core running 0.3% versus the 0.2% the street wanted, and the 10-year jumped to 5.3% on the print. Food was part of it, which is exactly what I have been...

Welcome to the opening ceremonies of earnings season. JPMorgan, Citi, Wells Fargo, Goldman, and Morgan Stanley all reported today, with Bank of America tomorrow, and the early read is better than the higher-rate...

The biggest story over the weekend (in my opinion) was the Houthi missile strikes on a Saudi airport, which canceled more than a thousand flights, killed 13 people, and injured over 400. This is the kind of attack that...

This week Nick Ridenour of CompoundingAlpha is back for a run through his latest deep dives, starting with Nu Holdings, the SoFi of Latin America, where he lays out why Mexico and Colombia could let Nubank replicate its...

This week Kevin, also known as Bagholder, who writes Mytwocent$ on Substack, joins me before bank earnings season kicks off. Bag lays out the bearish case on the big banks. His argument is that the banks loaned out...

When friends ask how I build my investment portfolio, aka the Rigatoni Capital portfolio, it really comes down to three major investment themes. The first is technology, because I believe it is exponential and I believe...

A potential new theme is taking shape in this market, and it comes down to cash-rich companies winning while debt-heavy ones get punished. The chart below represents quality versus the most shorted names splitting into...

After the Nasdaq printed fresh all-time highs day after day, futures are finally pulling back this morning on an oil jump from Hormuz tanker attacks, a 30-year yield at 2002 highs, and an overnight Bitcoin flush that...

Everybody is passing around the scary version of this upcoming earnings season, that the top ten stocks will account for roughly two-thirds of the S&P 500's earnings growth and that Micron and Nvidia alone will carry...

Michael Hartnett at Bank of America points to the 1999 template, the narrow breadth where tech ripped more than 40% while almost everything else fell, as a warning that we are near a top. I see it differently, because I...

This week George Dykes, co-host of the Investing or Gambling podcast, joins me to work through what it really takes to be a long-term buy and hold investor, and he frames it as a worldview built on three pillars that we...

The indexes are at all-time highs, but what's happening underneath the hood is quite different. The Mag 7 is masking what looks a lot like a bear market in everything else. The culprit, in my opinion, is the combination...