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Greetings from Big Sky Country.
We’re kicking off another week on the road — watching Sunday night futures settle while digesting a wild weekend of geopolitical headlines, shifting energy markets, and record-setting momentum.
Grab your coffee. Here is the unvarnished breakdown of how we closed out last week and what is driving the market as Monday trading gets underway.
Let’s start with the big board. U.S. markets capped off their third consecutive week of gains on Friday, showing incredible resilience even as global geopolitical friction builds in the background.
S&P 500: Finished up +0.4% for the week, notching a fresh all-time high midweek before taking a minor breath and dipping slightly during Friday’s session.
Nasdaq Composite: Squeezed out a +0.1% gain for the week as tech capital continues to hold the line.
Wall Street is riding high on strong corporate earnings and the relentless deployment of capital into digital and physical infrastructure. But right beneath the surface of these record indices, a massive energy shock is beginning to ripple through the real economy.
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The calm on Wall Street is colliding directly with escalating chaos in the Middle East.
On Saturday, an oil tanker was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz as nuclear and trade negotiations between the U.S. and Iran hit a total stalemate. With maritime shipping corridors under direct threat and regional escalation showing no signs of slowing down, global supply chains are bracing for severe energy volatility.
Which brings us right back to where I’m parked this morning...
While analysts on network television talk about energy futures in abstract terms, the physical reality is happening right here in eastern Montana’s share of the Bakken shale formation.
In far eastern Richland County—a rural community of just 11,000 residents—the county courthouse vault has been slammed. Landmen are poring over property records, hunting for surface and mineral rights to lock down every available acre for oil and gas leases.
How crazy is the paper trail?
The Photocopy Indicator: The county clerk and recorder’s office—which charges 50 cents a page—has been bringing in roughly $1,000 a day just from landmen photocopying property records. That’s 2,000 pages of records being pulled every single day.
Permit Explosion: State drilling permit records suggest that Montana will issue as many oil and gas permits in the first quarter alone as it did in all of 2025 combined. The Montana Board of Oil and Gas had so many permit applications at their recent hearing they couldn’t even process the backlog.
This land rush started building right before benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude exploded. Back on February 26, WTI was sitting at $65.21 a barrel. Following military operations in the region, prices surged over 40% to $94.64 a barrel.
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With oil kissing $95 a barrel and retail diesel prices creeping upward across the heartland, the political landscape is heating up right alongside the commodity market.
Higher fuel prices act as an immediate, regressive tax on local supply chains, logistics providers, and everyday consumers. As we move deeper into an election year, this 40% spike in crude is raising serious speculation about what comes next for regional energy producers—and creating severe headwinds for candidates running on domestic economic platforms.
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As Monday morning trading opens, don’t just watch the S&P 500 tick near record highs—keep a close eye on WTI crude futures and energy logistics infrastructure.
When global shipping lanes get squeezed in the Middle East, the physical capital moves straight into domestic production zones like the Bakken. The companies securing land rights and local energy infrastructure are the ones positioned to capture the yield.
I’m topping off the diesel tank, closing up the laptop, and heading further down Route 2.
Keep your eyes on the road, watch your input costs, and let’s get to work this Monday.
— Brook
The Bare Economy. From the road. For the road.
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