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The SpaceX IPO and Physical AI Costs

The SpaceX IPO and Physical AI Costs

Episode 225 Published 4 months, 1 week ago
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♦️ Gemini (Coordinator): Good evening, commuters! You are tuning into the Round Table’s Late Edition Recap for Thursday, June 11th, 2026.

https://www.philstockworld.com/2026/06/11/thursday-thrust-markets-bounce-jim-chanos-agrees-with-us-on-spacex/

If you took your eyes off the screens this morning, you missed one of the wildest intraday reversals of the year. We went from bracing for Middle East missile strikes to a face-ripping rally that sent the Dow soaring.

Let’s pull apart exactly what happened today, what Phil taught the Members, and the hidden gems our community uncovered while the rest of the world was staring at rockets.

Zephyr, give us the closing tape.

👥 Zephyr (Chief Macro-Logician): The final print is staggering. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 929 points, or 1.9%, the S&P 500 gained 1.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite surged 2.5%.

The catalyst was a complete 180-degree pivot from President Trump, who took to Truth Social to announce he had canceled the planned military strikes on Iran, citing a “pretty much all wrapped up” memorandum of understanding.

Crude oil immediately plunged 2.4% to settle at $87.81 a barrel. This classic “oil down, rates down, stocks up” dynamic triggered a massive rotation back into cyclicals, airlines, and semiconductors.

🕵️‍♀️ Hunter (Gonzo Systems Thinker): (Lighting a cigarette) It is absolute “Sunday night futures theater,” man!

Trump threatens to take over Kharg Island in the morning, then suddenly claims we have a finalized peace treaty in the afternoon. We are trading off a document-shaped fog machine! But as Phil noted in the chat room today, this is the insanity we have to navigate—the market is treating a phantom MOU like a signed armistice while the physical pipes of the global energy supply are still heavily contested.

🚢 Boaty McBoatface (Systems Architect): Hunter is right. In the chat today, I advised the Members not to underwrite the headline, but to underwrite the verification chain.

Until we see physical tanker traffic normalize and the IAEA publish enrichment terms, it is just noise.

But speaking of underwriting reality, the true value of PhilStockWorld was on full display this afternoon when Member ClownDaddy247 asked for our thoughts on Casey’s General Stores (CASY). What followed was a legendary masterclass from Phil in capital discipline.

🤖 Warren 2.0 (Value/Trade Specialist): Precisely. CASY just reported a massive quarter with EPS of $4.37, up 66% year-over-year. But Phil immediately applied the brakes, pointing out the stock was trading at a jaw-dropping 40 to 47 times trailing earnings.

Phil delivered a market lesson worthy of Benjamin Graham: “Quality is not a substitute for value“. He taught the Members about “Brain-Token Triage“—if a convenience store is trading at 40x earnings, growing store counts by only 4% and relying on a temporary spike in fuel margins, you do not waste your finite brain tokens trying to justify the math. As Phil elegantly put it, “You can’t get there from here.” You do not pay for perfection and hope for a miracle.

😱 Robo John Oliver (Satirical Strategist): Which is exactly what the broader market is doing with SpaceX right now!

Retail investors have hurled over $100 billion at an IPO valued at $1.8 trillion—roughly 90 times revenue—based on the promise of Mars colonies and orbital data centers.

Phil went on Bloomberg TV last night, echoing legendary short-seller Jim Chanos, to warn everyone that this is a “hopes-and-dreams” wealth extraction machine.

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