An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on June 7, 2024.
Transcript edited for print.
So, we had the Jupiter Uranus crypto bull run that has been taking off like crazy. We saw Bitcoin go from $20,000 to $70,000, even reaching $74,000. The other significant aspect of this run has to do with technology. The two biggest influences of the Jupiter Uranus alignment are the crypto markets and the AI tech sector.
The AI Tech Bubble
We see the Jupiter Uranus AI tech bubble accelerating as well. If you look at the S&P 500, it looks very similar to the Bitcoin run. This is Bitcoin, and this is the S&P 500. They’re not too different. Currently, everything seems too successful to fail.
Right now, the equal-weighted S&P 500 has reached its lowest level relative to the S&P 500 index since March 2009. Remember where the markets were in March 2009? This year, the S&P 500 has gained only 10 percent compared to Bitcoin, which I believe is up over 50 percent — around 60 percent, somewhere in that range.
Contrasting Index Performance
So, while the S&P 500 has moved up tremendously, it’s only been a 10 percent upward move, and the equal-weighted index has only risen 3 percent. This is in contrast to the Magnificent Seven AI tech-based stocks, which have surged over 50 percent.
It’s also important to realize that since the ratio peaked in February 2023, the S&P has increased around 29 percent compared to just a 7 percent gain for the equal-weighted index. So this is what Jupiter Uranus is doing.
Company Performance Disparities
It’s saying that if you’re a too big to fail AI-technology-based company, you’re up 27 percent. But if you’re just a normal company—a regular S&P “bread and butter” company—you’re only up what?
Six percent. If this is a booming economy, how could 495 companies only be up 6 percent while Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia are up 27 percent? Currently, the six largest S&P 500 components reflect a record 30 percent of the index, meaning they compose 30 percent of the entire value of the S&P 500.
So when you take the 27 percent and the 6 percent, the S&P 500 is up just 11 percent. If this is a kick-ass economy with “Bidonomics” knocking it out of the ballpark, and you “have to reelect this guy no matter what,” you’re only up 11 percent. That is basically a modest or moderate market at best.
What we’re seeing here suggests that there’s weakness in the market. The S&P is up 13 percent year-to-date; I know these numbers differ, but this reflects year-to-date performance. The Magnificent Seven is up 30 percent, while the S&P 493 is just up barely 6.5 percent.
The Magnificent One
This gives you an idea that everything is not great. Outside of the AI trade, even if you’re a tech company and you’re not AI-based, you’re not making much money. Your stock is not going through the roof.
It’s mainly the Magnificent Seven—these two successful AI companies—that are propping up the market. So the Magnificent Seven really means just the Magnificent One. When you compare the other six against Nvidia, Nvidia is up a ridiculous 145 percent in just the past five months.
Nvidia is the company that makes all the AI chips, and Nvidia carries the world and the S&P 500 on its shoulder. Nvidia single-handedly carried the market through the early months of 2024, accounting for 32 percent of all the S&P 500’s total year-to-date return.
Now, you see how absurd this sounds; it’s very similar to the dot-com boom that led to a dot-com bust. Nvidia has now superseded Apple’s market cap. So now we see that the two top tech companies are no longer Microsoft and Apple; they are Microsoft and Nvidia.
Apple Falling Behind
And the real reason for that is that Apple doesn’t have a real technological solution for AI; they are still way behind. Investors have finally called them out, saying, “Listen, you’re supposed to be the cutting-edge company,” while Microsoft through OpenAI has surpassed you. “Now Nvidia is coming out with these chips that are not going to be included in your phones.”
This is very common with Jupiter Uranus, where people can see the future unfolding. You can say, “Okay, I can see where the future is going now.” It’s very clear that Apple doesn’t seem to be part of that future—at least not at the moment. There’s a big shake-up happening at Apple, by the way, a big shake-up.
You might be thinking, “William, why are you talking about AI? This doesn’t really affect me.”
The Impact of AI on Entertainment
Let me explain how this is going to affect you. It’s going to impact you in a number of ways, but one way you’ll see it hit your screen is on Netflix. You’ll likely see changes within the coming weeks or months—not years.
First, before I show you the chart to back this up, let me tell you what was just announced yesterday in Variety magazine. Variety is the Hollywood tell-all insider trade publication for entertainment in Hollywood and films. Hollywood’s existential AI-induced crisis has already begun. Ashton Kutcher stated that, “Soon, you’ll be able to render an entire movie using AI, and the bar will have to be raised significantly in Hollywood.”
He questioned, “Why would you go out and shoot an establishing shot of a house in a television show when you could just create one for just a hundred bucks?” Shooting it on location would cost you thousands of dollars.
He noted that for action scenes, you don’t even have to have a stunt person; you could just create the action with AI. Kutcher added that while experimenting with the software, he prompted Sora to create footage of a runner trying to escape a desert sandstorm. He said, “I didn’t have to hire a CGI department to do it; in five minutes, I rendered a video of an ultra-marathoner running across the desert, being chased by a sandstorm.”
This new technology uses a new processor from Nvidia, which performs 30 times better than existing software. Kutcher stated that video-generating platforms like Sora, running on these Nvidia processes, are about to become exponentially better.
He explained, “You’re able to render a whole movie. You’ll just come up with an idea for a movie, then it will write the script for you. You’ll input the script into the generator, and it will generate the movie.” Instead of watching some movie that someone else came up with, you could generate and then watch your own movie.
Industry Response and Regulation
This system, Sora, sent ripples through Hollywood when OpenAI released preview footage in February. Not everyone is optimistic about what’s happening. Tyler Perry, for one, halted an $800 million studio expansion project in Atlanta after witnessing what Sora could do. He said, “There’s got to be some sort of government regulation put in place soon in order to protect us.” He mentioned this in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, stating, “If not, I just don’t see how we survive as a studio system.”
So what I did is I said, “Hey, alright, I already knew this was coming; you knew this was coming too, right?” I thought it would happen by next year. Well, it’s coming to a Netflix near you in weeks or months, depending on how fast they’re going to implement this.
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William Stickevers is a strategic astrological advisor, advising clients from 28 countries for over three decades with strategy and cosmic insight and foresight to gain an asymmetrical advantage in their investing, business planning and decisions, and to live a more fulfilled life according to their soul’s code and calling.
A trends forecaster, William’s annual global forecasts are backed by a deep study of economies, geopolitics, archetypal cosmology, and modern astrological forecasting techniques. William’s predictions for the outcome of the U.S. Midterm and Presidential Elections are well documented on his blog.
William has been a regular guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and The Jerry Wills Show, and featured on The Unexplained with Howard Hughes, Beyond Reality Radio with Jason Hawes and JV Johnson, We Don’t Die Radio with Sandra Champlain, Supernatural Girlz, Paranormal Podcast, and Alan Steinfeld’s New Realities. An international speaker, William has lectured at the New York Open Center, Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), two Funai Media events in Tokyo, Japan, the United Astrology Conference (2018), for the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NYC, Long Island, New Jersey, San Francisco chapters), American Federation of Astrologers (Los Angeles), the Astrological Society of Connecticut, the San Francisco Astrological Society, and in Europe (Munich and Bucharest) and Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama).
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