The Iran deal is back on again and off again, but oil is not buying it. Marty and John sift through the weekend headline chaos to focus on what actually matters: WTI near seventy dollars and the dollar index back above one hundred. They break down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's speech on economic statecraft, why reshoring critical supply chains is moving from PowerPoint to plant openings, and how Iran's oil sanctions waivers are really a dollar dominance play. They also dig into the AI-driven memory shortage that is ending consumer electronics deflation, the administration's crackdown on frontier model releases, and why Apollo's seventeen percent withdrawal requests are a warning shot for private credit. To close, they look at Strategy's preferred share depeg, Bitcoin scraping fifty-eight thousand, and BlackRock's quiet reiteration that every portfolio needs one to two percent allocated to BTC.
In this episode:
- Iran deal whiplash and headline fatigue
- WTI at seventy dollars and the dollar at one oh one
- Bessent on supply chain audits and economic statecraft
- Hard tech reshoring from El Segundo to Michigan
- Dollar dominance and Iran oil waivers priced in USD
- AI driven memory shortage ending electronics deflation
- Frontier AI regulation versus open source models
- Private credit stress at Apollo and insurers
- Strategy preferred shares dropping to seventy two dollars
- Bitcoin at fifty eight thousand and BlackRock guidance
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Iran deal whiplash
00:01:47 - WTI at seventy dollars
00:02:27 - Bessent on supply chain resilience
00:04:14 - Economic statecraft and coercion
00:06:08 - Hard tech reshoring
00:08:55 - Dollar dominance and DXY one oh one
00:10:59 - Iran oil waivers in USD
00:15:27 - AI memory shortage and electronics inflation
00:20:14 - Frontier AI as national security
00:23:18 - Open source versus frontier economics
00:28:43 - Apollo private credit stress
00:32:21 - Strategy preferred shares depeg
00:33:46 - Bitcoin breaks sixty thousand
00:34:18 - BlackRock allocation guidance
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