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On The Markets

Understanding the stock market and economy probably wasn’t on your bucket list when you were a kid, when you graduated high school or even today 😂. And yet there it is, day after day, looming in the background and affecting real life events for you and your family, good and bad. Why’d it go up? When’s it going down? Wait, is “the market” actually much bigger than just 500 US stocks? It’s complicated. And they make it complicated on purpose! On The Markets gives context to complexity. A stock

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34:28

The Oil Markets Knew

On The Markets ·

2026/03/07

The main story in the market this week is the main story in the world- military activity in the Middle East. What impact did it have on portfolios? How did different asset classes react? Time to find out, On The Markets. This week Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir examine: • Why the oil markets last week may have been prescient, but is this week’s spike a sign it might actually go down? • Not surprisingly, defense/tech stock

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52:32

Why Are Investors Seeking Safety?

On The Markets ·

2026/02/28

So much for the “New Year, New Bulls” mentality. NVidia beats earnings and the price gets whacked? Consumer staples having a moment? Crypto looking like 2024? For why? Let’s find out, On The Markets. This week Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir examine: • Inflation numbers continuing to heat up. What could that mean for a rate cut or, dare we say it, rate “cuts”? • Why’s everything so expensive? Well maybe

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64:28

No Tariffs? Now What?

On The Markets ·

2026/02/20

Welp, so much for the ‘tariff tantrum’. The US Supreme Court shot down the President’s emergency use of tariffs today. How did the market react? Does the US have to refund everything it took in? Let’s take a look On The Markets... This week Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir examine: • The market’s immediate reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against the President’s tariff authority. • Why the market might be

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62:35

Does The Market Love AI? Does The Market Not?

On The Markets ·

2026/02/13

On Valentine’s Eve, we ask the question- how do the market really “feel” about AI? We’re seeing signs in both columns. This week on our latest episode of On The Markets. with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir. They look at: • A look at indicators the market has not yet priced in the impact AI is going to have, not just on tech, but all sectors of business. • And yet...the market still LOVES AI, wait until you see

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46:31

What Crypto Today May Be Telling Us About 2026's...

On The Markets ·

2026/02/06

If you’ve got a Crypto maximalist in your family, make sure to check on them 🤣. This week on our latest episode of On The Markets. with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir. They look at: • A look at Bitcoin’s all time drawdowns after a rough week for Crypto. • Google’s looking at record spending this year. • Gold and single had their biggest single day drops ever. • Real estate continues to be topsy turvy-

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62:18

Crypto's Down, Gold's Down...What's Up?

On The Markets ·

2026/01/31

Is the glitter off gold? Is the secret out on crypto? If those two assets slid, then where did it all go? Time to go On The Markets. This week on our latest episode of On The Markets. with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir. They look at: • Gold taking a significant tumble this week, despite a series of charts that show it’s significant performance recently, does this mean it’s topped? • Silver getting SMOKED. •

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68:41

The Times They Are A Changin'

On The Markets ·

2026/01/23

Global economic conference this week, so your newsfeed was *hot* with sound bytes from big names. The common theme we’re seeing? Change. This week on our latest episode of On The Markets. with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir. They look at: • Thoughts on the economic impacts of ‘purchasing’ or territories in the past... • Shocking stats on the number of people living along and the number of americans with 0

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61:21

Inflation Is Hot And So Are Precious Metals

On The Markets ·

2026/01/17

Inflation is hotter than expected, gold and silver keep running, and global tensions seem to be warming up as well. Let's dive in... This week on our latest episode of On The Markets. with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir. They look at: • Inflation hotter than expected, and gold and silver just don’t seem to quit... • Spoiler alert- one of the things I just mentioned is the best performing asset this decade • The

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61:49

3 Surprising Facts About The 2026 Housing Market

On The Markets ·

2026/01/09

Will 2026 mark a turning point in the housing market? Would you be shocked to find out: 1. _____________ 2. Administration is putting $200b into the mortgage market directly 3.____________ can’t invest in houses soon Fill in the blanks this week on our latest episode of On The Markets. with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir. They look at: • 3 surprising facts from that “other” market, real estate • US richest

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58:23

Will An Artificial 2025 Lead To A Tangible 2026?

On The Markets ·

2026/01/03

We survived the robot-pocalypse of 2025...might still be coming in 2026 and beyond or...are we about to throw it back, way back, to the GOLD standard? Why AI over-hype in 2025 might have led to a knee-jerk reversion to precious metals in 2026, on our first episode of the year On The Markets! Kicking off the new year right with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir to look at: • The massive run gold and now silver have

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45:08

The Economy Is Not The Market

On The Markets ·

2025/12/19

Say it with me, the market is not the economy. And what? And the economy is not the market. Good job class, now write that in cursive a hundred more times. This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • The market’s up 16% this year? Don’t tell that to job cuts. Which states have been hit the worst. Is it all AI? Or is COVID over-spending finally hitting the fan? • The stock market

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67:13

On The Markets - Why The Fed Says Let It Snow

On The Markets ·

2025/12/12

Fed President Jerome Powell might be going through his last Christmas in office, but he's put on his Santa hat one more time to make it rain again, well it's winter so Let It Snow...liquidity. This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • How liquidity, i.e. money printing, is back in action and making it’s way to the S&P 500. Is it covering up an otherwise trash market? •

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57:21

5 Busted Market Narratives In 2025

On The Markets ·

2025/12/06

Hope you and your family had an awesome holiday! Daren, Chris and Dano are back on the grind with a new episode of On The Markets. As the year draws to a close, we can start to look at all those convenient narratives the market Nostradamus’ had this time of year, and how wrong they were. 5 Busted Market Narratives In 2025 Trump's Administration Will Send Crypto To The MoonBonds Are Yesterday's Asset AI Will Become Everything Foreign Stocks Will Get Crushed With Tariffs Tariffs Will Decrease The

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66:11

The Bubble Is Leaking

On The Markets ·

2025/11/21

You won’t fully know when “the bubble” pops, but there will be signs. Did we see some this week? A smoking gun from TechCrunch? Or do we just not truly understanding the 4D Chess of tech behemoth accounting? Plus a few laugh-out-louds with the Sonoma team to lighten the mood in a red week in the market. Let’s go... The Bubble Is Leaking This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • A

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59:53

The Ai Buildout Costs More Than Going To Mars

On The Markets ·

2025/11/14

The chess pieces were definitely moving on the board this week, whether it was the market, the economy or the Federal Government. When millions become billions become trillions, it can be hard to fathom exactly how much money is really being discussed. This week, let’s put it in another context... The AI Buildout Costs More Than Going To Mars This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: •

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65:58

Did The Bubble Just Pop?

On The Markets ·

2025/11/08

The signs have been there for months, but is this week that the Ai bubble meets it’s “dot-com” finish? Did a so-called “expert” call it? Let’s find out.This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at:• The dude from The Big Short is back and he’s betting against Palantir and Nvidia, who proceeded to get smoked this week...• A quick refresher of the ‘K-Shaped Economy’• Foreign central banks are

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SPECIAL: Highly Appreciated To Diversified - 351...

On The Markets ·

2025/11/07

Tell me if you've heard this one from a friend:"Ya it's great it went up, but I'll get *crushed* on taxes if I sell it. I've got to wait for it to GO BACK DOWN so I can get out."Yikes.Surely the point of investing isn't to wait for an investment to go DOWN 😂for fear of the tax man. Could there be a better way? Enter: The 351 Exchange. A tax deferment option to gain diversity, and unwind concentrated risk. Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Chris Sipes CFP® and Cambria Investment Management Co-Founder

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59:24

Powel's Giving Out Full Sized Candy Bars?!

On The Markets ·

2025/10/31

There was always that one house...that rumor that everybody on D Street in Petaluma didn’t just have “fun size”, they had FULL SIZE candy bars. As we sit here on Halloween night, is the Fed President is also about to dole out the goods? This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • Why Fed President Jerome Powell (he still works here?) is offering up “treats”...but in December. • You think

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59:42

Run It Hot

On The Markets ·

2025/10/25

Consumer Price index (inflation) burning at 3% still, stocks in and around the all-time high neighborhood, valuations of companies with no profits through the roof and just for kicks, even more Fed cuts seem imminent. This week On The Markets, we’ll look at the "engine” of American finance, and why the power players are choosing to RUN IT HOT 🔥. This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look

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50:12

Government Shut Down Vibe Check

On The Markets ·

2025/10/17

Entering Day 16 of the 2025 Federal Government shut down. Last week the market seemed to shrug it off. But for how long? Gold? Bonds? This is a time when, as the kids these days now like to say, we need to do a “vibe check”. This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • How is the S&P, Bond market and gold reacting to the ongoing government shut down and other global tensions? Not

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