About Cathie Wood
Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest, has recently discussed several investment themes, including Bitcoin, autonomous vehicles, and the broader economy. Regarding Bitcoin, Wood stated that her conviction in the asset has not diminished and that she would consider increasing exposure, describing the current period as a "bottoming process." She argued that stablecoins are likely to increase the U.S. dollar's influence by exporting dollars to emerging markets, and she contrasted Bitcoin's non-government, seizure-resistant nature with stablecoins, which she described as an extension of government money. Wood also expressed a contrarian view that the dollar will move up as returns on invested capital in the U.S. rise due to deregulation and tax cuts.
On the topic of autonomous vehicles, Wood said she believes Tesla will be a "winner take most" market participant in robotaxis, citing its years of training data. She predicted that auto production has already peaked, partly due to ride-hailing services, and that the cost of transportation could fall significantly. In macroeconomic commentary, Wood characterized the economy as moving into "boom territory" but noted that markets were plummeting, attributing this to uncertainty around new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. She argued that the Fed's past attempt to solve a supply shock with higher interest rates was a mistake, and she predicted that productivity gains would lead to lower-than-expected inflation. Wood also highlighted a boom in capital spending and suggested that labor shortages, rather than a glut, would be a surprise in the coming years.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Cathie Wood's recent appearances.
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Interviewer0:00
Bitcoin—I mean, you at one point, I think back in April, told Dow Jones that it could go to about $500,000. Do you still hold that target? Do you still think that's where we're headed?
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Cathie Wood0:09
We do. Yasin El Mandra is our crypto analyst, and we go through soul-searching times like this and scrape the models—and yes, our conviction is as high. The one thing that has changed, however, is the environmental concerns around Bitcoin in particular have caused people like Elon Musk to pull away and say, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, let me make sure I understand this.' We believe that even this is going to change because, first of all, right now the percentage of Bitcoin mined with renewables and hydroelectric power is quite substantial. I think in China it's over 50% in renewables. And we also believe—and we wrote a paper in conjunction with Square on this, and we're going to have a conference about it in July—we believe that Bitcoin mining integrated into the distributed grid, and by that I mean solar roofs, Powerwalls in homes, utilities, merchant power producers starting to include Bitcoin mining in the ecosystem. Why would they do that? They would do it because renewables are intermittent power sources—weather: is it sunny or not? Wind: is it windy or not? And Bitcoin mining could take the excess energy. If there's excess energy from solar being loaded into Powerwalls, it can be offloaded into Bitcoin mining, and the whole ecosystem therefore becomes much more economic. If this happens, we believe that the adoption of solar is going to accelerate dramatically because there's another profit center associated with it: Bitcoin mining.
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Interviewer2:09
Well, what happens though in the meantime? So here we are at 35,000. Cathie, do you think we go much lower from here?
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Cathie Wood2:16
You never know how low is low when a market gets very emotional. A lot of traders see Bitcoin dropping below the 200-day moving average, which was at $40,000. So traders—once that happened, they just dumped. Some just dump and run. I think we're in a capitulation phase. Yasin has a dashboard; we were looking at all the indicators this morning. They are all suggesting that we are in the capitulation phase, which is a really great time to buy—no matter what the asset is. A capitulation phase is buy. It's on sale now. Am I saying $35,000 is the low? You know, if traders—and there are a lot of speculators in Bitcoin—if they are running for the hills just because Bitcoin has broken through a moving average that is important to them, it could continue. But all of our indicators are saying this is capitulation right now.
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Interviewer3:17
Do you have a low point on your model for Bitcoin?
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Cathie Wood3:21
No. These metrics are more a measure: are we in a truly capitulation phase? And it's very detailed. Yasin uses on-chain analysis—which, this is the only asset where you can see exactly who's doing what, when, why, and how—and all of those metrics are saying this is a capitulation. This is as bad as it got during the coronavirus crisis.
