By Marty Shtrubel
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 19:45:00
Despite recent blips, the markets have kept pushing higher in 2025, lifted by excitement around AI and the massive investments flowing into tech. Consumer spending has also stayed surprisingly resilient, even with stubborn inflation and a softer job market, giving business confidence a boost.
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However, Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin cautions that this upbeat mood may be artificially driven by fiscal and monetary policies that make more sense for a contracting economy than one that is expanding. He noted that while these policies are boosting markets, they resemble measures typically seen during recessionary times.
This approach, says the billionaire, has produced a kind of “sugar high” that hides deeper issues such as inflation and a weakening dollar. And even with stocks surging, he highlighted gold’s more than 50% climb this year as a sign that investors are quietly hedging against U.S. sovereign risk.
That doesn’t mean Griffin is stepping away from AI or tech, but rather becoming more selective. In Q3, the billionaire investor, whose net worth is about $49.8 billion, reshuffled some of his AI chipmaker stocks – namely giants Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) – loading up on one while trimming his holdings of the other.
So, with help from the TipRanks database, we took a closer look at both names to understand why Griffin currently leans toward one over the other.
Nvidia
Probably no other company…