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"Alphabet's $205B spend. Tesla's messy open. Intel after the close."

Jul 23, 2026

Loose Change Daily - Thursday, July 23, 2026

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5 Money Ideas Worth Your Time

Thursday, July 23, 2026  ·  Morning Edition

Good morning. Tesla already told you the profit story overnight. Alphabet told you the spend story. Intel still has the close.

Five ideas before the open. Coins under the cable chyron: who gets paid when hyperscaler budgets turn physical, how to size a messy TSLA open, and what actually matters on the Intel print.

 

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Money Idea #1

Alphabet Just Raised Capex Toward $205 Billion. That Is Not a Side Note.

Cloud jumped 82%. Then management pushed 2026 capital spending toward $195 billion to $205 billion. The stock sold the spend. The cleaner read is physical: power, cooling, copper, and the names that only move when budgets become concrete.

If hyperscalers keep lifting the ceiling, the bottleneck is capacity, not demand for tokens. Most of the tape will stay stuck on the multiple. That is their problem.

Here's What We Uncovered →

Money Idea #2

1 Stock to Own by July 31st

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Get rid of overpriced AI stocks before a scheduled announcement on July 31st threatens to reshuffle the stock market's winners and losers. Smaller, lesser-known names are now showing the potential to dethrone AI's Magnificent 7.

On July 31st, this little-known stock in particular could soar while Tesla faceplants.

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Money Idea #3

Tesla Missed on Profit. The Open Is About What Broke, Not the Scoreboard.

Revenue hit a record near $28.2 billion. Adjusted EPS came in around $0.33, well short of the street. Free cash flow flipped negative. Deliveries were never the mystery. Margin was.

Mark levels before cash. Decide what would change your mind on pricing, energy, and capex talk. A gap that fills in thirty minutes is noise. A miss that bleeds into the whole long-duration complex is not.

Here's Our Take →

Money Idea #4

The Largest Energy Source on Earth Has Been Sitting Right Below Our Feet

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Three miles straight down, everywhere on the planet. The International Energy Agency measured it at 140 times global electricity demand. It never runs out. Never stops. Produces zero emissions.

The only problem was getting to it. For decades, nobody could drill deep enough through solid rock to make it work.

See the Company That Finally Reached It →

Money Idea #5

Intel Reports After the Close. Foundry Is the Line That Matters.

INTC prints after the bell. Skip the nostalgia trade. Score Data Center and AI, Foundry traction, and whether guidance still funds the rebuild without a nasty surprise on investment intensity.

Write your walk-away rules before the release. After-hours Twitter is a terrible planning desk. If Foundry language firms up, the second-order map is suppliers and competitors, not just one ticker on a hero call.

See What to Watch Into the Close →
 

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