This week’s Alts Community spotlights live deals in women’s pro sports and film lending, flags fresh risks in wine investing, and unpacks member debates reshaping art, prediction markets, and global opportunities.

Today, we’re revisiting a hot topic from 2025 that everyone seems to have forgotten about or simply accepted.

This week’s Alts spotlights red-hot film co-invest deals with eye-popping IRRs.

This week’s Alts dives into why most rare earth projects fail, debunks the biggest REE myths, and reframes the sector as an industrial coordination problem—not a mining one—walking through the real bottlenecks, pricing distortions, and a practical scorecard investors can use to separate viable suppliers from hype.

This week’s Alts Community update tees up a new way for Altea members to co-invest deal-by-deal as the Film Co-Invest pipeline overflows, while Auto I hits an early milestone with a fast capital rotation. Plus: polls, new spaces, fresh debates, and 2026 forecasts.

This week’s WC lays out a stark fork in America’s future—slow drift versus AI-driven abundance—and argues your portfolio is built for neither, making the case for a barbell strategy that loads resilient cash-flow assets on one end and asymmetric scarcity bets on the other, so you’re positioned to win no matter which reality arrives.

Major labels spent nearly two years suing AI-music startups. Now they’re licensing them. We break down why the shift happened, what’s in the deals, and what it means for artists, rights, and investors.

This week’s Alts Community mixes live, time-sensitive deals with a lighter community pulse—spotlighting Tomball preferred equity and Tequila III, rolling out new rewards and polls, and surfacing sharp discussions that jump from overvalued stocks and film economics to iRobot’s collapse and, somehow, snail orgies.

This week’s WC maps the CapEx Supercycle reshaping America’s near future, breaks down the fork between a slow, grinding “Forever Drift” and an AI-driven “Abundance Paradox,” and shows how each path reshuffles wealth, work, and opportunity.

A short, curated alternative gift guide featuring handcrafted glassware, iconic Space Pens, collectible art prints, and a special Altea holiday offer for new members.

This week's WC kicks off the end of the year for us, and that means a three-part series: Today: Where America's at and how it got here Dec 10: Where America's going: Brazilification vs The Abundance Paradox (Altea members get a sneak peek) Dec 17: Where to put your money (Dec 24-31: Leave me alone, I'm tired)

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the line between gambling and investing. Mostly because it feels like that line is evaporating — and the drumbeat around this theme is getting louder.