Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

For years, investors were told globalization was the future. Companies moved factories overseas. Supply chains stretched across continents. And businesses became increasingly dependent on countries thousands of miles away for the products and materials they needed to operate. It was incredibly efficient.

We’ve got a lot of ground to cover today… News broke yesterday that Iran may not be making a deal with President Trump before his presidential term ends in 2029… at least according to Majid Shakeri, an adviser to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. In comments posted to X, Shakeri went on to say that Iran’s path to victory was neither “peace nor war,” but rather keeping the messy status quo intact for another two and a half years.

We just got major vindication this week that our core AI megatrends remain intact. That’s because two of our key holdings – Palantir Technologies (PLTR) and Caterpillar (CAT) – reported earnings this week, and both knocked the ball out of the park. I’d like to share some of the details of these earnings reports so that you can see why the market’s getting so excited. We’ll start with Palantir…

For the past three years, investors have poured trillions of dollars into the artificial intelligence boom. And with good reason… Artificial intelligence has already transformed the way we write, research, code and communicate. It has fueled one of the largest infrastructure spending booms in modern history, creating enormous winners for investors positioned at the center of that buildout.

Today, after the closing bell, Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) will release its quarterly earnings report. You can bet Wall Street will comb through every line. Investors have become increasingly skeptical of the AI infrastructure trade, wondering whether the hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into chips, data centers and other AI investments can keep growing at this pace.