Video: Macro Minute: US corporates proven adaptive time and again in the past 7 years. Turning crisis into an opportunity. The same will happen with the 'blue tsunami.'

In this Macro Minute video, Tom Lee discusses how recent political developments he refers to as a “blue tsunami” intersect with the history of US corporates adapting to shocks such as COVID-19, the 2022 Federal Reserve tightening cycle, tariff-related disruptions, and geopolitical tensions. He lays out the nature of the current crisis narrative, including policy shock around an anti–artificial intelligence (AI) platform, proposals for moratoriums on AI data centers, and headline risk from actions like Oracle’s canceled AI deal with Tencent. Lee also highlights reports of hedge-fund closures as a source of liquidity stress and compares this episode with prior market shocks including the “DeepSeek moment,” “Tariff Liberation Day,” and an earlier “situational awareness” selloff.

The video then frames AI as a multi-decade theme and examines the distinction between near-term uncertainty and longer-run demand and supply dynamics for AI infrastructure, semiconductors, power, and data-center capacity. Lee notes examples of corporate responses, such as potential retrofitting of older facilities for data centers and the prospect of AI buildout shifting across geographies. He also reviews indicators of market stress and sentiment, including volatility futures structure, measures of index momentum like relative strength, and positioning versus long-term moving averages, and he discusses how the evolving policy backdrop could influence Federal Reserve decision-making. The full video presents his charts, comparisons to past crises, and overall market framework.

In this Macro Minute video, Tom Lee discusses how recent political developments he refers to as a “blue tsunami” intersect with the history of US corporates adapting to shocks such as COVID-19, the 2022 Federal Reserve tightening cycle, tariff-related disruptions, and geopolitical tensions. He lays out the nature of the current crisis narrative, including policy shock around an anti–artificial intelligence (AI) platform, proposals for moratoriums on AI data centers, and headline risk from actions like Oracle’s canceled AI deal with Tencent. Lee also highlights reports of hedge-fund closures as a source of liquidity stress and compares this episode with prior market shocks including the “DeepSeek moment,” “Tariff Liberation Day,” and an earlier “situational awareness” selloff.

The video then frames AI as a multi-decade theme and examines the distinction between near-term uncertainty and longer-run demand and supply dynamics for AI infrastructure, semiconductors, power, and data-center capacity. Lee notes examples of corporate responses, such as potential retrofitting of older facilities for data centers and the prospect of AI buildout shifting across geographies. He also reviews indicators of market stress and sentiment, including volatility futures structure, measures of index momentum like relative strength, and positioning versus long-term moving averages, and he discusses how the evolving policy backdrop could influence Federal Reserve decision-making. The full video presents his charts, comparisons to past crises, and overall market framework.

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