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Rich Dad Radio Show: In-Your-Face Advice on Investing, Personal Finance, & Starting a Business

How Oil Prices Impact the Economy and Global Conflict

Rich Dad Radio Show: In-Your-Face Advice on Investing, Personal Finance, & Starting a Business

The Rich Dad Company

Business, Investing

4.14K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How oil prices impact the economy is at the center of today's global instability. In this episode of The Rich Dad Radio Show, Robert Kiyosaki sits down with Colonel Douglas Macgregor to break down what's really driving conflict, inflation, and financial uncertainty.

Most people think rising gas prices are the problem. This conversation explains why oil is much bigger than that—it powers everything from fertilizer and food production to manufacturing and global trade. When the oil supply is disrupted, the effects ripple through the entire economy.

You'll learn why wars and geopolitical tensions often center around energy resources, how disruptions in key regions like the Strait of Hormuz can impact global markets, and why inflation is often a direct result of these conflicts. Colonel Macgregor also explains how a lack of a long-term national strategy leads to economic instability and reactive decision-making.

This episode also challenges conventional thinking about global policy, highlighting how resource control, energy dependency, and political incentives shape economic outcomes more than most people realize.

If you want to understand how global events affect your financial future—and why energy remains one of the most critical factors in wealth, inflation, and stability—this episode provides a clear and strategic perspective.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I tell everybody until the aliens finally give us a secret to relate light, gravity, and magnetism,

0:06.1

and we know how we can move things without carbon-based energy.

0:10.2

We're stuck with oil.

0:16.2

Hello, Richette Radio Show, Robert Kiyosaki.

0:19.1

Good news and bad news about money, as I say.

0:21.6

We broadcast from Scottsdale, Arizona or Phoenix, Arizona,

0:25.6

where it's either heaven or hell, and right now it's heaven,

0:28.6

soon to be hell.

0:30.6

And people keep asking me, how do you put up with the summer?

0:33.6

I said, the invented air conditioning, thank God.

0:36.6

But anyway, it's not that bad.

0:39.1

It's a great place to live.

0:41.0

And I guess today is a man I respect tremendously.

0:46.5

Lieutenant Colonel Douglas McGregor.

0:49.6

He's West Point Class of 76.

0:52.7

And the reason that's important to me is because, for those that may not know this,

0:58.4

in the world of military academies, there's five military academies.

1:02.5

So West Point is the Academy.

1:05.6

Then there's Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

1:09.2

There's Air Force Academy, Coast Guard Academy at New London,

1:13.6

and Kings Point. And Kings Point's in Long Island, New York. And when I graduated from

1:20.3

high school in 1965, my poor dad said to me, said, you're so worthless because my grades were so bad.

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