I've spent 30 years studying how capital migrates from one side of the market to the other.
But this is unlike anything I’ve seen in my career.
In fact, the only time America has mobilized public and private money like this is during the throes of World War II – when freedom and democracy itself was at stake.
Think about what FDR did in 1941.
He drafted General Motors to build Sherman tanks. He conscripted Boeing to produce bombers. He mobilized General Electric, Caterpillar, Ford – the entire industrial complex of America – in service of a single national objective.
Private capital and public power moved in lockstep. Trillions of dollars (in today's terms) were channelled into a concentrated set of companies critical to the war effort.
And the investors who understood where that capital was flowing made fortunes that lasted generations.
Trump is running the same play.
Except this time, the battlefield isn't Europe. The weapons aren't tanks and bombers. And the critical resources aren't steel and rubber.
They are the physical foundations of artificial intelligence. The energy to power it, the minerals to build it, the chips to run it and the infrastructure to scale it.
And the mobilization is already underway – at a scale that dwarfs anything FDR attempted.
Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft committed more than $400 billion in 2025 toward data center construction, with that figure expected to hit $650 billion in 2026.
Apple is spending $500 billion – more than the entire GDP of Norway – to fast-track AI development on American soil.
The UAE has committed $1.4 trillion. Nvidia another $500 billion.
Threatened with 100% tariffs, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is relocating 40% of its chip supply chain to Arizona.
And for the first time in our history, the U.S. government is buying direct stakes in mission critical companies at the frontier of this war for control of the AI supply chain.
Trump has signed executive orders opening 625 million acres for offshore drilling, fast-tracking mining permits from years to days, and reopening retired coal and nuclear plants to meet the colossal energy demands of AI infrastructure.
I don’t necessarily like the way the President is going about his business. In my view, this level of command and control has the whiff of socialism about it.
But I learned long ago that the most dangerous (and costly) position to hold in the market is a moral one.
As investors, we have been given a map… a map telling us where trillions of dollars in urgent and mission-critical capital is headed.
All we have to do is follow it.