2-18-26 Q&A Wednesday: Markets, Money, and Your Questions
2026-02-18
It’s Q&A Wednesday—your questions drive the show.
Lance Roberts & Danny Ratliff break down what’s moving markets right now, key economic and Fed signals to watch this week, and the practical portfolio decisions that matter most (risk, allocations, income, taxes, and retirement timing). Drop your question in the live chatroom and we’ll tackle as many as we can.
Topics we often cover: market volatility & trend levels, rates/inflation, sector rotation, retirement income, tax strategy, ETFs vs. individual bonds, and avoiding emotional decision-making.
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2-13-26 Why The Market Didn’t Buy the “Strong” Jobs Report
2026-02-13
The latest jobs report looked strong at first glance, but revisions wiped out much of last year’s gains, and underlying trends show slower growth.
Wage pressures continue to ease, and alternative payroll data suggest job creation is running far below headline numbers.
Lance Roberts & Michael Lebowitz explain why the bond market’s muted reaction suggests investors saw through the headline strength and remain unconvinced that the labor market is reaccelerating or that Fed policy expectations need to change.
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Bond Yields May Plummet: Five Potential Catalysts
2026-02-11
The top graph below, courtesy of Bloomberg, shows that the price of TLT, the 20+ year Treasury bond ETF, has been drifting sideways for the last couple of years. Often, when a security trades in a tight range over an extended period, as we see with bonds currently, a breakout from the range can be …
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The Market Risk In 2026 If Growth Projections Fail
2025-12-29
There is a rising market risk in 2026 that is largely overlooked as we wrap up this year. As discussed in the “Fed’s Soft Landing Narrative,” optimism about 2026 is running high. Currently, investors are pricing in strong economic growth, robust earnings, and a smooth path of disinflation. Notably, Wall Street estimates suggest a significant …
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12-26-25 Buying Gold Doesn’t Mean You’ve Left the Dollar
2025-12-26
Gold $GLD is rallying and everyone’s calling the end of the dollar $DXY — but that story misses a critical detail.
In this short video, Brent Johnson and I discuss why buying gold or commodities like #crudeoil doesn’t mean you’ve escaped the dollar, and what really keeps the dollar in control.
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Economic Reacceleration: A Contrarian View
2025-11-14
Over the past two weeks, we’ve addressed a persistent question: if the data signals weakness, why hasn’t the recession arrived? In “Slowdown Signals: Are Leading Indicators Flashing Red?” we examined the cracks forming beneath the economy’s surface. From deteriorating leading indicators to credit stress and cooling employment metrics, the evidence supported a cautious stance. In …
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11-25-25 The System Is Broken – Garrett Baldwin Interview
2025-11-12
Lance Roberts sits down with Garrett Baldwin to dissect how the financial system became structurally distorted — from the Fed’s collateral-driven era after 2008 to the unchecked rise of passive investing and liquidity engineering.
Other key topics include:
The illusion of value through asset-price debasement
The 50-year mortgage folly and real housing affordability
CATH ETFs and the birth of speculative flows
How ETFs and repo markets reshaped price discovery
Garrett and Lance reveal how the system drifted from fundamentals — and what disciplined investors must understand to protect capital in an age of financial distortion.
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