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The Fed's In A Finger Trap: Cut Rates or Fight Inflation?

The Fed's In A Finger Trap: Cut Rates or Fight Inflation?

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 CPI inflation hit 3.8%, the highest since 2023. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh was installed to deliver a fed rate cut in 2026, but the numbers say he can't. While the S&P 500 hits record highs on surging AI stocks, the rest of the market is lagging and the fed rate decision has become a central bank finger trap. Can Warsh pull free? Or is stagflation the new reality? Let's find out On The Markets.

This week Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Chris Sipes CFP®, Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir examine:
• Look at rate hikes and cuts over the year. What does the rest of 2026 hold in store? What could either decision do to the market?
• Inflation wipes out wage growth completely for the first time in 3 years.
• Chris has a chart dating back to the Civil War that shows that market has only been this expensive one other time in history.

0:00 What is the Fed Finger Trap?
8:00 Rate hikes and cuts price in for 2026
9:49 Investor sentiment
12:06 Inflation wipes out wage gains for first time in 3 years
16:30 Producer price index rising
20:20 2 year treasury rate rising
22:35 Stock market is 2nd most expensive ever
25:58 What railroads tell us about AI
28:20 Small cap vs. large cap over the decades
30:18 Homeowner equity at highest levels since 1960
35:00 Some good news
38:56 S&P heat map
45:03 10 year rate soars, inflation is alive and well
47:20 Oil
48:37 Ugly close on bonds

Video of this episode here: https://youtube.com/live/Khj_z6-QduU


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