{"id":60288,"date":"2023-04-03T05:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=60288"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T22:10:05","slug":"distress-office-is-coming-at-bargain-prices-nvidia-shines-and-shines-now-buoyed-by-exploding-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=60288","title":{"rendered":"Distress office is coming at bargain prices. Nvidia shines and shines &#8212; now buoyed by exploding AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cash is now king. Have it, hoard it, spend it on bargain, distress real estate, now emerging, e.g.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/RE-LAX-Deal-800x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/RE-LAX-Deal-800x620.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/RE-LAX-Deal-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/RE-LAX-Deal.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The story: Many office buildings can&#8217;t meet their monthly nut (expenses) because tenants have fled and variable rate mortgage interest expense has skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Three factors are impacting office:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ People working from home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ The Fed raising interest rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Cities like LA, Portland, OR and San Francisco mismanaging their burgeoning homeless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That LA story comes from <em>The Commercial Observer.<\/em> Click <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2023\/03\/union-bank-plaza-in-downtown-la-sells-at-a-big-loss\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=DailyRU&amp;utm_term=2023-31-03-31015100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latest <em>Economist<\/em> has a piece:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><strong>Commercial-property losses will add to banks\u2019 woes<\/strong><br \/>\nReal-estate investors see a hellish-perfect-dumpster-fire-storm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2023\/03\/29\/commercial-property-losses-will-add-to-banks-woes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Gains in Tech<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My biggest gainer this year is Nvidia. Here&#8217;s an overview:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NVIDIA-In-Brief-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NVIDIA-In-Brief.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NVIDIA-In-Brief-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s Jensen Huang, Nvidia&#8217;s founder on Nvidia and AI. I understood about 5% of what he said.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s an impressive five percent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DiGB5uAYKAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"GTC 2023 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s last year&#8217;s which covers the six areas &#8220;Impact By Industry&#8221; in the chart above.\u00a0 This is the video I&#8217;d make every teenager in America watch. This is their future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39ubNuxnrK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"GTC 2022 Spring Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By all value metrics, Nvidia is way overpriced. Its P\/E is 160. But on any &#8220;excitement\/momentum&#8221; chart, it&#8217;s got a lot way to run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fun New Yorker cartoons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cartoon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Cartoon4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"586\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cartoon3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cartoon2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Who can resist?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/teflon-gone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhCjz6Gljtg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"Weekend Update: Donald Trump Indicted - SNL\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/go-to-jail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s ironic that he&#8217;s in trouble because he actually paid someone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the old days, Donald had a reputation for not paying. A lawyer friend told me Donald once called him for a case. My friend said he wanted $350,000 up front. Donald asked, &#8220;Why up front?&#8221; My friend answered, &#8220;Because you never pay your bills. The next sound was dial tone, as Donald hung up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A piano tuner was working in A Trump casino. My friend asked &#8220;Donald is not paying you. Why do you keep working for him?&#8221; The piano tuner answered &#8220;Because if I stop tuning his pianos, Donald will call all my other employers and tell them I&#8217;m a bad person and I won&#8217;t get any work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>It&#8217;s April<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As Saudi cuts production, oil is up. Buffett is right. Fortunately I still own a few oil stocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you tomorrow, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe you&#8217;ll catch me on Fifth Avenue holding a sign &#8220;<em>Lock Him Up<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe not &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash is now king. Have it, hoard it, spend it on bargain, distress real estate, now emerging, e.g. The story: Many office buildings can&#8217;t meet their monthly nut (expenses) because tenants have fled and variable rate mortgage interest expense has skyrocketed. 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