Today's episode explores the dangerous intersection of an emerging agentic economy and a global landscape teetering on the edge of a consumer credit crisis. We dive into how the race for compute supremacy, from silicon to space, is colliding with energy chokepoints in the Strait of Hormuz and the widening cracks in the $3 trillion shadow banking system.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:22 - The Agentic Economy: AI's New Financial Frontier
6:27 - The New Frontier of Computing: Silicon, Space, and Scale
11:50 - Macro Headwinds: Inflation, Tariffs, and the Consumer
17:13 - Energy Chokepoints and the Global Oil Shock
22:52 - Shadow Banking and the Risks of Private Credit
25:43 - Conclusion

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