Episodes 15
Avg. Duration 17m
Activity Dormant
Since Jun 2025
Latest Episode Aug 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every Few Days
Format
Episodic
Hosting
anchor.fm

About This Podcast

Macro Mechanics, an AI-generated podcast based on the market insights and articles of Mike Ross—a finance professional with a focus on global markets, geopolitics, and monetary strategy—offers a deep dive into the forces steering global markets. Whether you’re managing client portfolios, trading for yourself, or simply curious about the “why” behind market moves, Macro Mechanics equips you with the practical intelligence to stay ahead of the economic cycle. https://mikeross55.substack.com/profile/posts?utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page

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Recent Episodes

The G20's Political Divergence

Aug 04, 2025 17m

The Group of 20 was elevated to a leaders’ level summit in 2008 on the premise of urgent, coordinated action to steer the global economy back from the brink of collapse. For a time, it functioned as…

The New Rules of Trade

Jul 30, 2025 16m

In the final weeks of July 2025, the global economic landscape was fundamentally reshaped. Within days of each other, the United States finalized sweeping trade frameworks with two of its largest…

The Future of the Dollar in Perspective

Jul 28, 2025 15m

The U.S. dollar holds a central, yet increasingly contested, position in the global financial system. Its future is not a single, predictable path but rather the likely outcome of a complex interplay…

The Rise of the Pivotal Powers

Jul 25, 2025 16m

On a summer morning in Rio de Janeiro in mid-2025, the leaders of the BRICS nations convened for the bloc’s 17th summit. The scene was one of carefully choreographed cooperation, yet the air was…

From Treasury Scarcity to a Debt Deluge

Jul 21, 2025 18m

In early 2001, Washington grappled with a problem that now feels like a dispatch from a parallel universe. Projections for budget surpluses were so vast that policymakers debated not how to rein in…

The ‘Involution’ Economy

Jul 18, 2025 16m

In the expanding cities of China, the laws of economics appear to have been suspended. A consumer can walk into a showroom and drive away in a new electric vehicle for less than $10,000. On a…

The Unending Duel

Jul 14, 2025 18m

Two competing visions of the economic world have engaged in a profound and often bitter struggle for more than a century. This intellectual contest, most vividly embodied by the Keynesian and…

US's New Fiscal Architecture

Jul 11, 2025 19m

In a move that will define the second term of the Trump administration, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025, after a grueling, party-line battle in Congress.…

The Great Distortion

Jul 09, 2025 19m

For more than fifteen years, the foundational language of capitalism—market prices—has been systematically miswritten. What began in 2008 as emergency life support for a global financial system on…

The Dragon's Dilemma: Deconstructing the Risks of a Chinese Treasury Sell-Off

Jul 07, 2025 15m

A subtle yet significant shift is unfolding in the global financial landscape: China’s methodical reduction of its U.S. Treasury holdings. As of April 2025, Beijing’s official stake in Treasury…

Rethinking Global Trade: The Radical Plan to Undermine the Dollar’s Dominance

Jul 04, 2025 16m

As the Trump administration crosses its 90-day pause on most tariffs (ex-China), frustration with the global trading order has reached a boiling point. The United States has revealed a growing…

The Federal Reserve’s Pandora’s Box

Jul 01, 2025 23m

It seems tempting for a Treasury faced with a debt of $36.21 trillion and a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion. However, revaluing the United States’ extensive gold reserves to market value would be…

Winds of Chaos at the Monetary Beacon

Jun 30, 2025 17m

The United States Federal Reserve (the Fed) continues to navigate a political storm whose scope and implications far exceed the usual debate over interest rates. Since Jerome Powell’s appointment in…

Between Signs and Silences: The Rhythm of the Debt Ceiling

Jun 29, 2025 19m

The United States debt ceiling emerged in 1917 as an administrative mechanism to streamline the financing of the war effort, but it has evolved into a political "brinkmanship" instrument that…

The European Union and the Challenges of the New Protectionism

Jun 29, 2025 27m

Confronting an aging population, widening economic disparities, geopolitical tensions from a resurgent Russia and an assertive China, the fallout of Brexit, energy and migration pressures, and a…

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How many episodes does Macro Mechanics have?

Macro Mechanics has published 15 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Business, Investing.

Is Macro Mechanics still active?

Macro Mechanics is currently dormant with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 17m.

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