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  "disclaimer": "Analysis and opinion, not investment advice.",
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  "summary": "Kevin appears in Part 2, Part 4, Part 7, Part 11 of The Buildout. Part 2: SpaceX Is Funding an AI Bet Before the Proof; Part 4: AI Spending Has Met Its First Real Bill; Part 7: The Fed Hiked. The Long End Still Climbed.; Part 11: The Backlog Is Not the Quarter. Argued in Part 11 (A backlog is a promise).",
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      "section": "The customer test",
      "excerpt": "And the demand exhibit is a signed contract rather than an inference: Kevin Gee documents Anthropic’s agreement to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute through May 2029, roughly $45 billion in total.",
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      "excerpt": "Kevin Gee’s wider question is the one the stock cannot answer with a slide: can the market absorb three trillion-dollar cash-burning IPOs in a single window, with OpenAI still to come?",
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      "part": 4,
      "section": "Arithmetic sets the test",
      "excerpt": "Kevin Gee’s A Letter a Day, relaying Oscar Hattink’s 2026 letter, puts the burden on the customer.",
      "url": "https://deepstack.ltd/stories/the-market-stops-paying-for-faith/"
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      "section": "Lede",
      "excerpt": "At the press conference, Neil Irwin of Axios asked Kevin Warsh what the bond market was telling the Fed.",
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      "excerpt": "Kevin of 100 Bagger Hunting, writing on September 11 about Ilyda, withholds conviction past 2027, because roughly 15% of revenue depends on EU and state tenders whose timing is unknown.",
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