What do rails, fiber, and AI have in common?

J.K. Financial, Inc. Rail, Fiber, AI

This is a brief excerpt from the coming winter newsletter, thought it was so interesting and so many parallels. wanted to bring it to your attention in short form here.

The answer to the headline? Nothing YET!

In a recent presentation from one of our favorites, Jim Bianco, as he pulls no punches during his interview!

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Railroads

Bianco points out that we currently have 40% less of peak 280k miles during the initial build. Much of these tracks were only used twice, once when built and once when taken down.

Fiber Options of the late 90’s

Again, Bianco points out In the late 90’s, Global Crossing crossed over from asking to raise money to being given as much money as they wanted. They laid 100k of cable with only 2% used, much of has not been used and will never be used.

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Illustration showing a freight train and railroad tracks on the left, glowing fiber-optic cables in the center, and AI circuitry with data center servers on the right, representing parallels between railroad expansion, the fiber-optic boom of the 1990s, and today's AI infrastructure investment. The headline reads, “What do railroads, fiber optics and AI have in common?”

When human nature, excitement, greed, unknown outcomes and lemming like actions all get mixed up together, there are a lot of historical presidents that can occur.

Maybe this time is different, but it is worth noting those are very dangerous words!

Have a Great “History Repeats itself” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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