The AI Gold Rush Meets an Oil Shock | Protect the Pile Episode 25

Visit HedgeyeAM.com for more info 00:00 – Markets Return With Oil, Rates & Quad 2 in Focus 06:00 – The Weak Dollar Tug-of-War 12:30 – Midterms, Politics & the Coming Defense Spending Boom 15:00 – Iran, the Red Sea & the Growing Oil Supply Risk 23:00 – Why Modern Warfare Is Becoming More Expensive 28:30 – Can Policymakers Keep Markets Going Through the Midterms? 33:20 – Russia, Ukraine & a New Threat to Global Energy 38:00 – Could Higher Rates Break the AI Boom? 45:45 – The AI Price War: Who Actually Makes Money? 53:15 – AI Bubble or Next Internet? Finding the Real Winners What happens when rising oil prices, a weakening dollar, geopolitical escalation and an increasingly crowded AI boom all collide at once? In the latest Protect the Pile, R. Patrick Kent, Sam Rahman, Brooks Cutright and Neil Howe unpack a market being pulled in several directions at the same time. The panel debates whether tightening energy supplies and expanding global conflicts could reignite inflation and reshape the economic regime heading into the midterms. Then they turn to AI, where massive infrastructure spending, aggressive price competition and sky-high expectations are raising a harder question: even if AI changes everything, who actually makes the money? From OpenAI and Anthropic to Apple, Snowflake and Databricks, the group digs into where the real winners - and risks - may be hiding. Get an investing edge on the enormous amount of money flowing into options every day, what they’re signaling, and the structural and behavioral trends driving markets higher or lower. The Market Situation Report™ includes access to a daily newsletter and weekly webcast featuring analysis of the Tier 1 Alpha team's proprietary models. CLICK HERE to check out our product page. Turn off that tired “Old Wall” TV and tune into The Macro Show, Hedgeye’s live daily broadcast featuring key market and economic insights, investing implications and interactive viewer Q&A. See for yourself why more and more investors in the U.S. and abroad have made this “must-see” market TV. We are live online every weekday morning at 9:00am ET. CLICK HERE to check out our product page.