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💥 The Truth About Rising Oil, Stagflation, and the AI Job Wipeout. Here's what to do.

Oil up 35%. 92,000 jobs gone. Robots are getting real. The third industrial revolution is starting now. Are You Prepared?

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Andrew Lokenauth
Mar 10, 2026
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In 1973, a group of Arab nations cut off oil to the United States. Gas lines stretched for miles. Inflation exploded. The stock market crashed 45%. The economy fell into recession. And it all started with one decision about one resource. Oil.

This week, something eerily similar began unfolding.

Oil just posted its biggest weekly gain in the entire history of futures trading. Thirty-five percent. In one week. At the same time, the U.S. lost 92,000 jobs. Wages rose while employment fell. The Fed is frozen. Stagflation, the economic nightmare that defined the 1970s, is back on the table.

Stagflation happens when prices rise while the economy stalls.

We haven’t seen it in a generation. But this week, the ingredients came together perfectly. Oil up 35%. Jobs down 92,000. The Fed stuck between fighting inflation and helping growth.

Meanwhile, Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI companies, published new research this week showing that AI can theoretically handle 96% of tasks in Computer & Ma…

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