A Time for Continued Patience when Impatience Steps to the Fore
On December 17th, the Fed delivered its third rate cut of 2025. Frustratingly, the 10Y Treasury yield remains stuck above 4%, so the long-awaited macroeconomic relief that real estate investors feel they need has yet to arrive. We’ve been so patient, too.
Watching Investment Bubbles Deflating
Over the last couple of years, the only thing that has exceeded the magnitude of Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) potential is the Fear of Missing out (FOMO) driven frenzy to invest in AI. Evidence that the mania might be peaking came with the 09/30/25 IPO of Fermi Inc. (FRMI), a REIT start-up that is “pioneering the development of next-generation electric grids that deliver highly redundant power at gigawatt scale, required to create next-generation artificial intelligence.”