Ten31 Timestamp: Going Vertical

China's teapot refiners are bleeding, Intel is going vertical on reshoring headlines, and AI benchmark scores are leaving the charts as Trump meets with Xi this week. Three vertical charts tell the story of US leverage across energy, chips, and capital markets, why the AGI buildout is driving industrial policy, and what it means for a labor market already showing cracks. No matter which scenario plays out, the path keeps leading back to the asset with no supply response. 🔗 https://bitcoinproducts.com In this episode: Why Chinese teapot refiners are getting squeezed by Hormuz How the Trump-Xi meeting was shaped by Iran war timing Intel going vertical on Apple reshoring and chip policy US portfolio inflows and the weaponization of capital markets AI benchmarks breaking the charts on scaling laws The split economy: record AI investment and broke consumers Mass layoffs at Cloudflare, Upwork, and Coinbase Why every road leads back to Bitcoin's fixed supply TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Mother's Day and monitoring the meta war 00:01:06 - Chinese teapot refiner margins collapse 00:02:11 - Three vertical charts framing the week 00:04:18 - SPR drains, input costs, and export asymmetry 00:05:15 - T…