Hysteria and the Long-Term Impacts of a Policy Firehose

By the time this video podcast is published, President Trump will have only been in office for 4 weeks: there are still 3 years and 48 weeks to go—permanent freak out mode is not sustainable or healthy! In this week’s video, which we recorded a little earlier than usual due to some travel this past week, we address a number of questions that have arisen. We are going to do our best to use our equity research analyst’s mindset to assess policy actions taken or proposed. This means our only goal is to make the right call and provide the best insight we can for the companies we advise. We will keep our answers focused on how it all might impact the long-term energy macro and corporate strategy.
AI-Driven Convergence: Energy, Power, and Technology

The market reaction to the emergence of DeepSeek two weeks ago is illustrating the increasing convergence of traditional energy, the merchant power producers, and the artificial intelligence (AI) theme in the technology sector.
DeepSeek, Davos, 45-47

As long-time Super-Spiked subscribers know, we are not about “hot takes” on the issue of the day.
Top 10 Tactical Questions for 2025

As promised, we return this week with our Top 10 Tactical Questions for 2025.
Big Questions on our Big Themes for 2025

It’s been a great start to the year for the energy and power sectors broadly speaking. This video will publish just two days before we have a new administration here in the U.S. And as we highlighted in our last few Super-Spiked’s from December as well as the Big Themes for 2025 outlook post from last week.
Big Themes for 2025: Energy Scenario Normalization, Power Surge, Technology-Driven Growth

As we start 2025, we are filled with a renewed optimism about the fundamental outlook for the broad energy sector, including traditional oil & gas, power, and select new energy sources and technologies. The Energy Transition™ era—i.e., the narrow definition which treated achieving net zero carbon emissions as the priority objective—decisively ended in 2024. Policy […]
A Look Back at 2024 Tactical Questions

In our final post of the year, we take a look back at the ten tactical questions for 2024 we asked in January.
Lessons From The End of The Energy Transition Era: Governance

We follow up on our written post from last week, Reflections On The End of The Energy Transition Era, to talk about important lessons learned from what was an insane period of time.
Reflections on the End of The Energy Transition™ Era

The Energy Transition™ era of 2019-2024 is coming to a welcomed close.
Bettering the Outlook for Energy

We hope all of you that tune in or read Super-Spiked know that we try our hardest to be non-partisan and present views from what we refer to as an equity analyst’s mindset, which means it does not matter what we personally think about an issue, we are just trying to make the right call. […]