# Between Relief and Reality Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-pulse-6609925/between-relief-and-reality Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-pulse-6609925/between-relief-and-reality.md Podcast: [Macro Pulse](https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-pulse-6609925) Published: 2026-06-18T15:35:00+00:00 Episode link: https://haveranalytics.podbean.com/e/between-relief-and-reality/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/83kcsp8ce4tcwhue/June_18-esv2-71p-bg-30p-music-50p7ovm8.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/macro-pulse-6609925/episodes/between-relief-and-reality Duration seconds: 432 ## Resource The US-Iran MoU has delivered a genuine moment of geopolitical relief — oil lower, yields down, risk assets recovering. But relief is not the same as resolution. Beneath the headlines, the underlying data continue to tell a more complex story. In our charts this week: US growth outperformance widens; Europe and China disappoint UK gilt yields, oil prices and the Bank of England's next move Global semiconductor sales surge to record highs on AI demand Oil retreats on the MoU; copper, uranium and critical minerals hold firm Energy availability as a binding constraint on growth Why this investment boom looks different from the late 1990s ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/macro-pulse-6609925/episodes/between-relief-and-reality/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/macro-pulse-6609925/between-relief-and-reality.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.