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Lending and borrowing success depends on the strength of the AI boom. For the moment, the demand for AI chips appears insatiable.

For lending, as in all things, necessity is the mother of invention. No matter the rate, lenders want to lend and borrowers want to borrow, with both sides tending to overdo it.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the newest collateral thing is the AI chip. Wall Street heavyweight Blackstone led a $7.5 billion financing last week for CoreWeave, “a New Jersey–based startup that owns artificial-intelligence chips and associated computing gear in data centers.”

The collateral of the realm these days is Nvidia’s graphics-processing-unit, or GPU, chip. For the moment, Nvidia can’t keep up with demand from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. These companies are gorging themselves on the chips, sending GPU chip prices skyward. “For Wall Street, their utility has given them another kind of power, turning them into assets that can backstop loans,” write Asa Fitch and Miriam Gottfried for the WSJ.

Over $10 billion has been raised using GPU chips as collateral. Startups in the AI space, while growing quickly, are not profitable. Thus, loan interest rates are in the low double digits as traditional lenders, which charge lower rates, have avoided the sector. Instead, asset-based lenders, which small businesses and real estate developers have typically had to turn to are providing capital for this high-flying technology niche.

“When you’re trying to build and scale a company at the speed that we’re going, it is access to capital that defines success or failure,” Michael Intrator, CoreWeave’s chief executive, told the WSJ. Over time, he hopes his company can obtain cheaper funding. However, for now, “it gets us what we need, which is the powder to be able to move at this size and scale.”

Fitch and Gottfried describe the deal structure as “a metaphorical lockbox, housing all of CoreWeave’s AI chips,” with all “revenue the company generates from clients using those chips . . . [going] first toward paying its lenders.” Most accounts-receivable factoring structures work much the same way. However, the term “metaphorical lockbox” will make a veteran lender scoff.

“When I started doing this, everybody thought I was nuts. Now people are starting to see the light,” said Stéphane Fisch, a principal at Argo Capital who has pitched one such deal.

At the retail investor end of the AI boom, lending and borrowing continues apace. Almost Daily Grant’s reports that the people’s brokerage, Robinhood, has cut margin lending rates to “6.75% financing on balances up to $50,000, with that rate dropping to 5.7% on accounts of $50 million and above.” The favorite of millennials and Gen Zers previously was made to pony up margin loan rates ranging from 8 percent to 12 percent. Rival brokerage Charles Schwab offers much stiffer rates of 11.83 percent to 13.58 percent.

For readers wondering when the next market accident is about to happen, Robinhood chief brokerage officer Steve Quirk may be offering a clue when he told MarketWatch, “People use [margin investing] episodically when they see a great opportunity or love a specific investment. But I think where the opportunity lies is, in addition to our current customers, we’re seeing a whole lot of new customers that are more frequent margin users with larger balances.”

Almost Daily Grant’s warns us that “aggregate margin debt outstanding registered at $775.5 billion at the end of April according to FINRA. That’s up 23% from the same period last year and equivalent to 2.8% of 2023 GDP, roughly matching the output-adjusted figure logged at the peak of the late 1990s dot.com bubble.”

Those numbers are no match for the $936 billion reached in the fall of 2021, equivalent to 3.43 percent of the gross domestic product.

Of course, lending and borrowing success depends on the strength of the AI boom. For the moment, the demand for AI chips appears insatiable. At the same time, big tech companies and startups can’t seem to generate enough revenue from AI to justify the cost of the computing power that underlies it—a story that sounds very familiar.

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If there are any successful strikes on Israeli positions using the ‘Palestine’ missile, there’s a likelihood Israel won’t publicize it, also to avoid handing the Houthis a propaganda ‘win’.

Yemen’s Houthis have for the first time announced a strike on Israel that was coordinated with allies in Iraq, namely the ‘Islamic Resistance in Iraq’ – an umbrella organization of Iran-linked Shia paramilitary groups.

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi militia, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, announced Thursday, “Today at daybreak, our military forces commenced coordinated operations with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq by carrying out an important operation towards the port of Haifa.”

“The Yemeni Armed Forces conducted two coordinated military operations with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance. The first targeted two ships carrying military equipment in Haifa’s harbor,” a follow-up Houthi military statement had sadi.

However, the Israel Defense Forces had quickly issued a statement denying that there was any successful strike on Haifa port, which is in the north. “It’s not true,” a military spokesman said. Reaching Haifa would have indeed been a significant long-range achievement, but there’s as yet no evidence of this.

Iraqi militants aligned with Tehran have since Oct.7 conducted several attempted drone or missile operations against Israel, with the projectiles often being intercepted once they get near Israeli airspace.

The Houthis have also fired missiles into southern Israel, which have either fallen into the desert or been intercepted by the country’s significant anti-air capabilities. 

Yemen’s Houthis are currently touting that they’ve engaged in the following operations in the past 30 days alone in the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and Mediterranean:

• fired 91 ballistic missiles
• 38 operations against ships
• unveiled and launched a long-range ballistic missile capable of evading radar

As for the new missile, the Houthis have said they’ve already fired the new “Palestine” missile Monday at southern Gulf of Aqaba port of Eilat in Israel. According to a description and some details in Associated Press:

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unveiled a new, solid-fuel missile in their arsenal that resembles aspects of one earlier displayed by Iran that Tehran described as flying at hypersonic speeds.

…Footage released by the Houthis late Wednesday showed the Palestine being raised on what appeared to be a mobile launcher and rising quickly into the air with plumes of white smoke coming from its engine. White smoke is common with solid-fuel missiles.

There is widespread suspicion the Houthis got the technology or even the whole missile itself and its components from Iran. There also remains deep skepticism that the Houthis actually have in their possession radar-evading hypersonic missiles.

If there are any successful strikes on Israeli positions using the ‘Palestine’ missile, there’s a likelihood Israel won’t publicize it, also to avoid handing the Houthis a propaganda ‘win’. 

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Gunman shot at random vehicles during broad daylight rampage, footage shows

A father of four was killed and another person wounded when a suspect opened fire on passing vehicles on a busy street in California this week, according to reports.

The shocking incident unfolded at around 7 a.m. on Monday in San Jacinto, a city in Riverside County.

San Jacinto Sheriff’s Station deputies arrived on the scene after multiple motorists were struck by gunfire.

Surveillance footage of the rampage has been circulating on social media.

“The two gunshot victims were transported to a local hospital for treatment. Despite lifesaving measures, one of the victims was pronounced deceased,” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office explained in a press release.

Investigators identified the suspect as 39-year-old Julio Cesar Rodarte, a local resident.

Rodarte was taken into custody a short time later and charged with murder and ten counts of attempted murder.

The deceased victim was identified as 42-year-old Victor Hugo Leon.

Leon, who was reportedly on his way home from an overnight shift at a warehouse job, is survived by his four children and wife of 13 years, Griselda Zepeda.

“More time kept passing by. I just had a feeling something bad had happened,” Zepeda told KTLA. “After him not calling me back after 40 times, I knew something was bad. I reported him missing. I went to every hospital hoping they would tell me he was there.”  

“I don’t know what was going through his mind, the last breath he took. It hurts me so much.” 

Authorities have released limited information about the case amid an ongoing investigation.

InfoWars has been documenting the surge of crime across the United States, including carjackings, ‘street takeovers,’ smash-and-grab loot mobs, home invasions, and physical attacks on innocent victims.

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Legal correspondent says quiet part out loud, exposing Democrat judicial lawfare playbook.

An MSNBC legal analyst acknowledged the significance of jailing leading MAGA voice Steve Bannon, noting that silencing the ex-Trump advisor ahead of the 2024 election is “important” for Democrats.

“I think Steve Bannon will in all probability serve that four month sentence and be silenced in the lead up to the election,” admitted legal correspondent Lisa Rubin, summarizing how the jail term would keep the staunch MAGA advocate from influencing the 2024 election.

“That’s particularly important because Steve Bannon was a huge voice for MAGA in the lead up to and more importantly, after the 2020 election.”

.@lawofruby: “I think Steve Bannon will in all probability serve that four month sentence and be silenced in the lead up to the election. That’s particularly important because Steve Bannon was a huge voice for MAGA in the lead up to and more importantly, after the 2020 election.” pic.twitter.com/8jaGtBlUTE

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) June 7, 2024

The wink and nod to the Democrats’ subversive lawfare strategy comes as a federal judge on Thursday ordered Bannon to begin his prison term starting on July 1, stemming from his defiance of a congressional subpoena ordering him to testify before the Jan. 6 Select Committee.

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse on Thursday, Bannon decried the order as a convenient way for Democrats to take down top-level MAGA influencers, but noted it would not be enough to stop MAGA in November.

“They’re not going to shut up Trump. They’re not going to shut up [Peter] Navarro. They’re not going to shut up Bannon. And they’re certainly not going to shut up MAGA,” Bannon declared.

BANNON: All of this is about one thing—shutting down the MAGA movement, grassroots conservatives and Pres Trump. Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail. There’s not a prison or jail built that can shut me up. pic.twitter.com/rjTvjHlrzW

— Grace Chong ?? (@gc22gc) June 6, 2024

“All of this is… about one thing this is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump.”

“Not only are we winning, but we are going to prevail, and every poll shows that.”

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Two surprising beauty pageant winners have just been announced much to the delight of the woke left. One was plus sized model Sara Milliken who won the title of Miss Alabama, sparking both criticism and support […]

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Slew of migrant stabbing attacks on officers across Europe in recent days

A police officer narrowly survived a vicious stabbing attack launched by a Middle Eastern migrant hoping to force a ‘suicide by cop’ scenario in Austria, according to reports.

The shocking ambush unfolded in the capital city of Vienna on May 25 but surveillance footage just began circulating on social media this week.

In the video, a 24-year-old cop can be seen conversing with a person on a sidewalk in the Favoriten district of the city.

Suddenly, a man charges up behind the unwitting officer and attempts to plunge a large blade into his neck.

The officer was miraculously saved by his body armor, affording him time to move away from his assailant and neutralize him with an electric shock weapon.

The suspect was identified as a 41-year-old migrant from Jordan.

“As has since become known, the Jordanian apparently wanted to commit ‘suicide by cop,’ i.e. let the police kill him – at least that’s what he said in his first interrogation,” Krone reports.

Information about the case is limited. The officer escaped with minor injuries.

The brutal attack unfolded just days before a police officer was murdered by a knife-wielding jihadist from Afghanistan in the city of Mannheim, Germany.

And on Thursday, a Polish Army soldier succumbed to injuries suffered when a migrant stabbed him during a skirmish along the Belarus border in late May.

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