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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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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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42:37

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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73:50

Government Shut Down. Chinese Trade Tensions. This Is...

On The Markets ·

2025/10/10

Air traffic control, National Parks, half the IRS, NASA, health agencies all shut down...the market took a minute, but now in tandem with new Chinese tensions, the market is reacting. Negatively. Like the little meme about a dog surrounded by chaos having coffee, you just gotta say... Government Shut Down. Chinese Trade Tensions. This Is Fine. 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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57:58

The Virtuous Cycle Continues

On The Markets ·

2025/10/03

You just sort of wake up and are in a cycle that you don't know how it started and it's unclear when it'll end. The money has money, the money goes to the performance, the performance is Ai, the Ai keeps spending, the employment doesn’t matter, wash rinse repeat. Because... The Virtuous Cycle Continues This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • This closed loop cycle of investment and

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53:12

Review Your Cash

On The Markets ·

2025/09/26

You leave the money in your checking account, you get 0%. You move the money to the account below it in your online login you get...3%? 4%? 5%?!?! That’s been life for the last couple years with money market accounts. A no brainer spot to park funds you might need soon or even...for awhile? Chris Sipes thinks that may change soon. This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Chris Sipes CFP® and Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: • The economic and monetary factors

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77:17

What Is The Triple Witching?

On The Markets ·

2025/09/19

Halloween in September? Not exactly. The S&P wasn’t that spooky or great this week, but there was some “witchcraft” that happened today we need to look at. Plus, an exciting guest joins the show from Canada's finance hub, Toronto to give his perspective on potential vulnerabilities in the US market right now, On The Markets. This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir jump in on: How inflationary pressures

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63:35

Why Isn't The Market Reacting?

On The Markets ·

2025/09/13

Our show is focused on the markets, but sometimes the markets are impacted by political and global events. And yet, despite a tumultuous week that could have easily been a narrative for a dip, the market kept plugging away. It’s time to ask the question... Why Isn’t The Market Reacting? This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir explain: The economic data that could easily be contributing to a down market that’s

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81:02

Be Careful Wishing For Rate Cuts

On The Markets ·

2025/09/06

Cut the rates, money will be cheaper, millions can refinance, market tends to love rate cuts, ...what could go wrong? This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski , Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir explain: Why the scenario where rates need to be cut means we are likely looking at a major economic downturn Why single family home sales are looking like 2008 In the last 20 years should you have been in all gold or all stocks? Joke’s on all of us, it’s a

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66:57

Is Concentration Still A Thing?

On The Markets ·

2025/08/29

The overarching theme of this decade’s market thus far has been ‘concentration’, meaning a few large, US tech stocks (many fueled by Ai) have just been getting bigger and bigger and smaller stocks have been getting smaller and smaller. But this week we’re seeing signs of cracks. And it’s time to ask... Is Concentration Still A Thing? This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir look at this exact idea, as well

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80:43

I Know What You'll Cut Next September

On The Markets ·

2025/08/23

He lurks in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to come out in Jackson Hole with his secrets that send the market into a frenzy. HE IS- FED PRESIDENT JEROME POWELL, but guess what we (think) we know now? We’re having some fun with the episode name, but the market was far from a horror movie on friday! This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP®, Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir are joined by a special guest at a critical inflection

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40:29

Why You're Stuck With $13 Burritos

On The Markets ·

2025/08/16

We are indeed a wealth management firm that deep dives on market trends, expense ratios, long term tax implications, competing currency trends, etc, etc, etc... But we also keep our feet on the ground and ask- how does that actually show up in your life? On today’s episode, we look at the macro economics that have left us with.... This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir examine: Why monetary policy has ballooned everyday items

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