{"podcast":{"title":"Conspiracy Theories Exploring The Unseen","slug":"conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen-4853551","podcast_index_feed_id":4853551,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5194379/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen--5194379","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/60a9fd8987bdcbf4b00bedcb302d6d66.jpg","author":"Michael Fortune","episode_count":1000,"summary":"The act of conspiring an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot. A combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose. An agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act, any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen--5194379/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T00:24:45.323085+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen-4853551"},"episode":{"title":"The Dollar's Double-Edged Sword","slug":"the-dollar-s-double-edged-sword","published_at":"2026-07-24T13:12:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen-4853551/the-dollar-s-double-edged-sword","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen-4853551","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dollar-s-double-edged-sword--73145847","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73145847/the_dollar_s_double_edged_sword_part_3_1.mp3","summary":"When you look at the headlines today, you might expect the classic market playbook to kick in. Usually, when a region as critical as the Middle East descends into conflict, investors scramble for safety. They run to gold, they dump risky assets, and they wait for the dust to settle. But the current situation with Iran is breaking every rule in the book. Oil is surging by thirty percent, the threat to the Strait of Hormuz is real, and yet, instead of gold hitting four thousand dollars and the dollar cratering, we see the dollar holding firm. It is a strange, paradoxical dance where the very thing causing the chaos is actually propping up the currency it might eventually destroy. Because oil prices are so volatile, inflation expectations are spiking. This puts the Federal Reserve in a corner, forcing them to keep interest rates high to cool things down. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen--5194379/support .","meta_description":"When you look at the headlines today, you might expect the classic market playbook to kick in. Usually, when a region as critical as the Middle East desce…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":161,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen-4853551/episodes/the-dollar-s-double-edged-sword/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspiracy-theories-exploring-the-unseen-4853551/the-dollar-s-double-edged-sword.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}