Global Macro Update Archive

Many people would like to lean more heavily on fossil fuel alternatives, including me, but until we build more nuclear power plants, the world will continue to run on oil and gas.

Gold has continued to reach new highs since I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago. Demand isn’t coming from individual investors. It’s coming from central banks, particularly China’s. Nick Glinsman, my guest today on Global Macro Update, adds a twist.

Have you seen the price of natural gas lately?

You’ll hear all about bitcoin and the vast crypto ecosystem in my latest Global Macro Update interview with Stephen McBride.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has a China problem.

Inflation is proving stickier than anyone would have hoped. Lyn Alden, my guest today on Global Macro Update, offers a cogent explanation of why, likening it to the fiscal-driven inflation of the 1940s.

Gold started this week at an all-time high. It’s up about 10% since the start of the year.

Is big tech cooling off?

We all know Big Tech is watching us. Companies like Google, Meta, and Amazon track what you read and watch, where you drive, and what you buy.

Seems like I hit a nerve.

Last week, the House passed a bill that would require ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to sell within six months or face a ban. Now the bill faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

Today, I’m sharing a timely discussion with Dr. Robert Zubrin, noted aerospace and nuclear engineer and president of Pioneer Astronautics.