AI, Oil Prices, and the Future of Work in America

Artificial intelligence, oil prices, the stock market, and the future of work all collide in this fast-moving episode of the Money Matters Podcast with Wes Moss and Connor Miller. Follow along as they connect AI growth, savings strategies, labor trends, energy markets, and the economic forces often associated with shaping the U.S. economy in 2026. • Examine how Year Zero Savings Accounts and sovereign wealth-style proposals might encourage long-term saving and broader participation in investing over time. • Explore the “candy tree principle” and Jevons Paradox to see why new technology at times creates more demand and opportunity instead of less. • Track oil prices, Middle East diplomacy, and the global energy trends that may continue influencing markets and consumer spending. • Assess how earnings growth across technology, utilities, communications, and materials may have helped support recent stock market resilience. • Consider how artificial intelligence, massive data center construction, reshoring, and infrastructure spending may continue increasing demand for skilled trades across the country. • Hear perspectives from the Milken Conference on blue-collar job growth, changing white-collar careers, and where the labor market could be heading next. • Reflect on retirement planning approaches that may help households create more clarity, flexibility, and long-term financial organization. Listen and subscribe to the Money Matters Podcast with Wes Moss for grounded conversations about investing, artificial intelligence, retirement planning, and the trends often associated with reshaping the economy.