The Jay Martin Show

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just predicted that the most important oil chokepoint on Earth will stop mattering within two years: the Strait of Hormuz, he said, is about to become just another body of water...

On the last day of July, the United States did something it had not done in 28 years: it walked into the currency market and spent billions rescuing another country's money. The White House called it friendship...

The machine that broke the economy in 2008 has been rebuilt — and this time it's made of AI. Jay breaks down the $2 trillion in promised future payments that Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Amazon are counting as...

Last week the White House imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, invoking a 1930 law no president had ever used, and the Toronto Stock Exchange promptly had its best day in a month — and Jay argues the shrug is the...

China is shutting down paper gold. On July 24, 2026, some of the largest banks on Earth — ICBC, the Postal Savings Bank, Ping An — stop letting their everyday customers trade it, all in the same narrow window, and Jay...

There is a hidden machine underneath the world's money — a web of banks, payment rails, and rules, built up over the better part of a century, that quietly keeps the U.S. dollar at the center of everything you earn...

In 2025, the world's central banks quietly began holding more gold than U.S. Treasuries for the first time in a generation, and Jay argues this is not really a story about gold, it's the clearest signal yet that the...

Turkey has started selling its gold after nearly wiping out its U.S. Treasury holdings, and Jay argues this is not an isolated crisis, it's an early warning signal in a much larger financial cascade. In this episode...

The U.S. government spends roughly $2 trillion more than it collects every year and runs entirely on borrowed money — yet somehow it still turns around and lends tens of billions of dollars to other nations. How is that...

What's happening in Japan is a preview of where the United States is heading. Jay breaks down how Japan's crushing debt, collapsing yen, rising borrowing costs, and dependence on imported oil could ripple into American...

The slow death of the dollar has already begun and the man who just took control of the Federal Reserve can't stop it. Jay breaks down the impossible choice now sitting on the desk of the new Fed Chairman, Kevin Warsh...

The United States debt crisis is starting to accelerate. Jay breaks down how energy disruptions tied to the Strait of Hormuz could force countries like the UAE and Kuwait to sell U.S. Treasuries for cash, driving yields...

In the next 90 days, the price of your iPhone is going up. So is your car. So is the wiring in your walls. Not because of inflation. Not because of tariffs. Because a war 7,000 miles away is breaking the system that...

Jay gives a breakdown of a conflict most people are only half watching. On the surface, it’s a military confrontation in the Middle East. But underneath, a second war is unfolding in bond markets and currency flows and...

Jay sits down with Peter Alexander, founder and managing director of Z-Ben Advisors, for a wide-ranging conversation on China’s real position in the global economy. Peter has lived in Shanghai for nearly 30 years, and...