Podbit · Excess Returns
The Fed has mismanaged its balance sheet from the beginning, and that's a primary reason inflation persists. Warsh wants to lower short rates while running the balance sheet off — Bessant and Miran agree. But institutional resistance inside the Fed is fierce, and any change will take years of small tweaks.
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Andy's summer watchlist: Warsh builds credibility without acting, tariffs quietly expire July 24, AI CapEx flows with no ROI clarity, and equity issuance tests market absorption capacity. [1] — Andy Constan "Four things matter this summer: the new Fed chair builds credibility without acting, tariffs quietly expire on July 24 unless renewed, AI C…" 56:30
Andy Constan argued the US has been in an inflationary environment for 5 to 6 years with no sign central banks are willing to do anything meaningful about it.
Jalen Brunson signed a 4-year deal instead of 5, taking $113 million less, enabling the Knicks to build a championship-winning roster.
Four things matter this summer: the new Fed chair builds credibility without acting, tariffs quietly expire on July 24 unless renewed, AI CapEx keeps flowing with no return-on-investment clarity in 2026, and equity issuance continues to test how much supply the market can absorb.
Current tariffs are set to disappear automatically by July 24th unless actively renewed or replaced by the administration.
Sam built Algrow, a SaaS for finding viral content formats, with zero coding experience using ChatGPT and Cursor. Six months later: 10,000 users, $14K/month in revenue.
Sam's first MVP threw an application error on its very first user — and he shipped it anyway. The core idea worked, and that was enough to validate the product and keep users coming back.
Sam joined Discord voice chats, muted himself, and silently screen-shared his product. Users in the chat started tagging him asking what the tool was. No pitch needed — curiosity did the selling.
Most founders post links in Discord and immediately get banned for self-promotion. Sam's approach was the opposite: build rapport, help people with the tool, let word of mouth do the work.
Find where your ICP lives. Listen before building. Validate with DMs and Loom recordings. Build in public with users inside your own Discord server. Turn early adopters into advocates with free access.
Instead of fearing the self-promo ban in large Discord servers, create your own private server for your product. You funnel in ideal customers and build a relationship that email can't replicate.
Algrow helps creators find and replicate viral video formats, starting at $25/month. It analyzes subscriber counts, average views, and trending formats — and can even generate the videos with AI.
After weeks of Sam silently screen-sharing in a Discord server, the server owner — unprompted — made a full YouTube promotional video about Algrow. Sam paid nothing and asked for nothing.
Producer Gus admits Discord never crossed his mind as a customer acquisition channel. Pat connects the insight to a broader lesson: match your distribution channel to where your actual customers live.
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