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🏛️ Carried interest loophole gets closed in the Trump tax bill

Trump's tax framework, unveiled live on this episode, pairs populist cuts (no tax on tips, overtime, senior social security) with closing the carried-interest deduction and the billionaire sports-team amortization break. Chamath's argument is that in a pro-labor Republican party no constituency will publicly defend carry's long-term capital-gains treatment, so it actually goes away - which compresses after-tax economics for fund managers and the listed alternative-asset managers that capitalize carry.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 35.7 EMBER
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT BX
expression · bearish politics-market
HIT
outcome · R +21.5% · α +5.2%
2026-02-07
window closed

also touching these tickers, same direction: Private equity model is broken 14 (BX) · Private equity model is broken 14 (KKR) · Private equity model is broken 14 (APO) · Endowment liquidity crunch forces discounted private-equity secondaries 12 (BX) · Endowment liquidity crunch forces discounted private-equity secondaries 12 (KKR) · Endowment liquidity crunch forces discounted private-equity secondaries 12 (APO)

⚖ Why this verdict

fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2025-02-07 → 2026-02-07 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▼ SHORT BX (primary play). BX fell 21.5% over the window → direction-adjusted R = +21.5% (the call made money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +16.3%α = +21.5 − (+16.3) = +5.2% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
    Stock-selection read: +37.8% — did BX move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
  4. Rule fired:
    ▶ HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5 ✓ (R 21.5, α 5.2)
    · PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0
    · MISS — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a HIT earn 1.0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath | proxy-sensitive: APO→PARTIAL (+17.5%)

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2025-02-07)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT BXstock PRIMARY largest listed alt manager - performance-fee economics most exposed to carry losing LTCG treatment
▼ SHORT APOstock adjacent alt-manager complex; comp structures built on carried interest
▼ SHORT KKRstock adjacent same carry-taxation exposure across PE/infra/credit

Mention log

Chamath
Chamath politics-market w=1.02 · n=96 · E214 (2025-02-07) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:05:25 SUPPORT
“I mean, who's going to stand up and lay on the railroad tracks for being able to amortize a multi-billion dollar sports team purchase or that when you make a fund investment, you should get long-term cap gains treatment? Who is going to be that person in this? Nobody's going to stand up for these things.”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Chamath
Chamath w=1.02
1 scoring event · 100% of moves
+35.7 → net +35.7

⏳ decay drained -30.0 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E214 2025-02-07 init +35.7 35.7 E214 born by Chamath (explicit_prediction x2) [w=1.02]
E215 2025-02-15 decay -1.4 34.3 E215 silent
E216 2025-02-21 decay -1.4 32.9 E216 silent
E217 2025-03-01 decay -1.3 31.6 E217 silent
E218 2025-03-08 decay -1.3 30.3 E218 silent
E219 2025-03-15 decay -1.2 29.1 E219 silent
E220 2025-03-22 decay -1.2 28.0 E220 silent
E221 2025-03-29 decay -1.1 26.8 E221 silent
E222 2025-04-05 decay -1.1 25.8 E222 silent
E223 2025-04-11 decay -1.0 24.7 E223 silent
E224 2025-04-19 decay -1.0 23.8 E224 silent
E225 2025-04-26 decay -1.0 22.8 E225 silent
E226 2025-05-02 decay -0.9 21.9 E226 silent
E227 2025-05-09 decay -0.9 21.0 E227 silent
E228 2025-05-17 decay -0.8 20.2 E228 silent
E229 2025-05-24 decay -0.8 19.4 E229 silent
E231 2025-06-13 decay -0.8 18.6 E231 silent
E232 2025-06-21 decay -0.7 17.8 E232 silent
E233 2025-06-28 decay -0.7 17.1 E233 silent
E234 2025-07-04 decay -0.7 16.4 E234 silent
E235 2025-07-11 decay -0.7 15.8 E235 silent
E236 2025-07-19 decay -0.6 15.2 E236 silent
E237 2025-08-01 decay -0.6 14.6 E237 silent
E238 2025-08-09 decay -0.6 14.0 E238 silent
E239 2025-08-15 decay -0.6 13.4 E239 silent
E240 2025-08-22 decay -0.5 12.9 E240 silent
E241 2025-08-29 decay -0.5 12.4 E241 silent
E242 2025-09-07 decay -0.5 11.9 E242 silent
E243 2025-09-19 decay -0.5 11.4 E243 silent
E244 2025-09-27 decay -0.5 10.9 E244 silent
E245 2025-10-03 decay -0.4 10.5 E245 silent
E246 2025-10-10 decay -0.4 10.1 E246 silent
E247 2025-10-17 decay -0.4 9.7 E247 silent
E248 2025-10-24 decay -0.4 9.3 E248 silent
E249 2025-10-31 decay -0.4 8.9 E249 silent
E250 2025-11-07 decay -0.4 8.6 E250 silent
E251 2025-11-14 decay -0.3 8.2 E251 silent
E252 2025-11-22 decay -0.3 7.9 E252 silent
E253 2025-12-06 decay -0.3 7.6 E253 silent
E254 2025-12-13 decay -0.3 7.3 E254 silent
E255 2025-12-19 decay -0.3 7.0 E255 silent
E256 2025-12-31 decay -0.3 6.7 E256 silent
E257 2026-01-10 decay -0.3 6.4 E257 silent
E258 2026-01-17 decay -0.3 6.2 E258 silent
E259 2026-01-30 decay -0.2 5.9 E259 silent
E260 2026-02-07 decay -0.2 5.7 E260 silent