CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Paul Jones

Founder of Tudor Investment Corp, Tudor Investment Corp

Search every verified Paul Jones interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Paul Tudor Jones, founder and chief investment officer of Tudor Investment Corporation, stated in mid-October 2026 that he is long oil and expects prices to rise another $20 to $25 per barrel, citing unresolved tensions with Iran and his expectation that any resolution is unlikely before the midterm elections. He described the situation as a "sword of Damocles" over the oil market, suggesting that a tougher path to resolution could be exercised after the midterms. Jones also compared the current market environment to 1999, noting a "two-speed economy" with AI-related companies diverging sharply from others. He expressed concern about debt markets, saying that AI-related corporate issuance, up 50% since 2022, could be the "tipping point" in a market already crowded by sovereign debt. He warned that "final resolution" on unsustainable fiscal deficits may require "something breaks," potentially in fixed income markets, and said 2027 would be "really challenging" for the stock market. Additionally, he spoke about AI safety concerns, noting that his quant teams have used neural nets for years and that the inability to understand how AI arrives at outputs remains a concern. He also discussed expectations for a strong fourth quarter following the midterms, based on historical midterm cycles.

Recent appearances

Notable quotes

“2027 is going to be really, really challenging for the stock market. And I say that because if I just look at the flows and that's probably what we look at the most, what I look at the most. You probably got the most negative flow picture for the US stock market that we've had say since 2002. And by that I mean if we sum up all the buybacks M&A all the positive things that has powered this market so much for the past”

“It still feels like 1999, a two-speed market. You've got it completely perfectly bifurcated in the sense that you have obviously everything that's adopting AI and everything that's not and they're going in opposite directions. And that was pretty much the case in 1999. I tell you it was so crazy. I did this conference about a week ago and we were going through, you know, what period does this remind you of? And we're”

“I think that for me, the most interesting thing, and it's hard for me to see professionally much beyond December 31st, because that's going to be really important, obviously, for a fund. So I'm trying to tactically think on what I want to do for the rest of the year. Clearly, if you kind of just go back and look at midterm cycles, a whole variety of things, it would tell you that we should have a really, really stron”

“We need to regulate AI we need to do it tomorrow we're late already we should have already done it We need to do it and we need to start with just the simplest thing which is we've got to watermark all AI so that we know the difference between what's human and authentic and what's algorithmically generated.”

“Last year, uh, I would say 20% of that room was in favor of government regulation. This year, it was 80%. Including the head of one of the largest uh uh model companies uh who said I can't believe we're not regulated. I can't believe that no government is regulating us. We need to be regulated.”

“The debt gets to the bottom of every accumulation and then the repayment of debt basically drives every economic cycle that there is. And right now, we have probably explored the envelope with regard to mortgaging our future earnings. The next part of this cycle will be the repayment of what we've enjoyed now for the past four or five years. I mean, again, we're in the largest post-war business expansion cycle in his”

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →