Wall Street has kicked off a classic liquidity vacuum in the final stage of the bull cycle: while retail, blinded by the hype around the SpaceX IPO and AI dips, pours its last dollars into the market, tech giants (Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Oracle) are aggressively cashing out through massive stock issuances and long-term bonds. Big capital is cynically funding its neural network infrastructure off the crowd's euphoria, locking in record profits on retail at historical highs.
While hype speculators risk getting stuck with overvalued Big Tech stocks in the midst of a total dollar liquidity shortage, the "smart money" is moving into a defensive macroeconomic position, scooping up long US government bonds (for example, via the TLT ETF). A tactical bet on duration amid the inevitable economic slowdown and the forced pivot of the Fed — this is the coolest and most calculated trade of 2026, which can easily absorb even the expected $650 billion sell-off of Treasuries from pension funds in the UK and Canada
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