U.S. Rescues The Yen | Macro Mondays August 3, 2026

Andreas Steno Larsen and Mikkel Rosenvold are back to break down a dramatic start to the week, beginning with the rare coordinated U.S.-Japan intervention to support the yen and what the market reaction says about currencies, rates, and the future of the carry trade. They Unpack Donald Trump’s decision to postpone planned strikes on Iran in favor of renewed talks, and examine the implosion of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s highly leveraged AI hedge fund and what this means for the AI trade. 

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Monarch 
01:23 - US Intervention to Support the Yen: What Markets Need to Know
04:45 - Why the US Stepped Into the Japanese Yen Market
06:03 - Iran Talks Resume as Trump Calls Off Planned Strikes
07:32 - The Sinus-Wave War: Why Markets Are Panicking Less
08:49 - Oil Flows, Strait of Hormuz, and the Risk Premium Fading
11:16 - What Trump Really Needs From a New Iran Deal
14:07 - Inflation Is Falling Faster Than the Fed Realizes
18:40 - Strong PMI, Higher Real Rates, and the Momentum Selloff
19:48 - Microsoft vs Alphabet: The AI CapEx Accounting Divide
22:21 - Why Memory Chips Could Be More Valuable Than GPUs
24:56 - Inside Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Hedge-Fund Implosion
26:08 - Global Macro Opportunities and Why the Dollar Could Weaken

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