On The Markets

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 market and economy show in plain English. Hosted by Fermata Advisors co-founders Daren Blonski CFP® AIF®, Chris Sipes CFP ® AIF®, podcast host Dano Weir and more. The team shares the weekly economic, governmental and technical inputs that may be affecting the performance outputs in your portfolio, tax situation and more. Powered by the brands of Fermata Advisors, including Sonoma Wealth, Fermata 401k and Fermata Tax.

Episodes

August 2, 2025 63 mins
Mark Twain popularized an old saying from a former British Prime Minister:  “There are 3 types of lies:  lies, damned lies and statistics.”  Find out why we believe that may be in play in the US economy right now as we speak, this week On The Markets...  
You can look at the numbers.  The numbers can be accurate. And yet they make no sense.  How is the economy allegedly "growing" and inflation is "down", but big tech's doing large l...
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We sincerely hope you’ve found some “me”or family time or both so far this summer, perhaps just lazily floating in a body of water.  According to Daren, that’s actually what happens with the market this time of year too... 
This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir look at what Daren calls his “Summer Float”, with markets just floating higher ...
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July 19, 2025 51 mins
It's a classic “meme” (the internet’s version of a newspaper cartoon)- an old clip from the Spider-Man cartoon show with two Spider-men (mans?) pointing at each other claiming to be the “real” Spider-Man. 
 
It’s been used a million times in meme-land, and make it a million and done because we’re wondering...is the market a Spidey meme? 
 
Trump says it’s Powell holding the market back! But then rumors of Powell resigning causes backla...
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July 11, 2025 63 mins
If you ever made your own greeting cards or birthday invitations in the 90’s, then you probably used a program called Print Shop Deluxe.  Long before Canva or Photoshop, this was what you’d use to make infinite graphics, literally out of thin air.  The phrase ‘Print Shop’ popped in our head this week as we thought about...The Fed.   
 
Can they ever stop printing?  Is the recent market resistance to seemingly catastrophic events simp...
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June 27, 2025 54 mins
There are some times in life when you just want a “do over”.  Wake up from a nap, and it’s as if the last 10 years didn’t even happen.  Well, this week for the market, it’s sort of like January-May just got blinked out of existence and...2025 starts in June! 

What tariffs? What war?  The market is once again tapping on an all-time high.  This week On The Markets, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes C...
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June 21, 2025 61 mins
"We never had a recession" these past 3 years but...we're looking at a bounceback anyway and it might be in the shape of a "K".  What that means for you and your portfolio now, On The Markets. 
Join Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir this week to find out: 
  • Why your experience of the economy might now might be if you got your mortgage before or after 2021 
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June 13, 2025 58 mins
Conflict in the Middle East, oil on the rise, gold’s up too.  Sadly, that could be a sentence accurately used in many different decades through time, and this week those all took center stage once again.  We take a look at their impact on the market at large this week as we go On The Markets. 
Join Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir this week to find out: 
  • Ho...
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June 6, 2025 54 mins
Our show On The Markets is a market show but...hard to ignore the biggest headline this week, so we thought we’d have a little fun.  Please enjoy our new episode- How To Lose A Guy In 10 Months. 

“If you aren’t laughin you aren’t livin” sounds like something Matthew McConaughey might say, and with that in mind we tried for some humor on the “breakup” this week of Elon Musk and President Trump.  The part we're more interested in- the...
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May 30, 2025 56 mins
We got a tariff backdown and a new slang term this week.  Join Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir and learn what the new definition of a “TACO” is as they go On The Markets... 
  • There's a graph with a huge spike in it, spoiler it’s a social security chart
  • New gulf to talk about in the housing market – is consumer stress forcing a flood of home inventory?
  • Are Bo...
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May 23, 2025 33 mins
The kids say T-I-L, “today I learned”, that the word terrific meant “frightening”.  It’s current and past meanings seemed to sum up the duality of the current tariff situation, so credit to Daren Blonski for coining the phrase TAR-RI-FIC for today’s episode of On The Markets. 
This week, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir look at: 
  • Trump made new tariff threats against the EU and...
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Tariffs?  Recessions?  Bonds, Stocks and Gold down in April?  The Honey Badger Market don’t care 😂😂.  If you’ve not heard of the honey badger joke on the internet, we’ll let you discover it yourself, but it’s the 2010s way of saying something does whatever it wants, regardless of outside factors. Let’s decipher that in our YouTube show, On The Market. 
This week, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris Sipes...
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Life in the market can feel like a game show sometimes 😂🙃 And so far here in the 2nd Quarter of 2025, there’s really only been one question- Deal Or No Deal? Is that it? Does the *entire* stock and *entire* bond market hinge on whether the US and China make a new trade deal? Sure can feel that way, but Daren and Chris’ answer might surprise you. Let’s go On The Market.

Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP® and Chris...
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May 2, 2025 56 mins
And just like that...it’s like April never even happened in the market.  And yet, have there been lurking signs for months (years?) that an economic slowdown has been slowly piling kindling, just to finally be lit by tariffs?  Let’s go On The Market. 
Prepare your ears to hear this, but the S & P 500 has recovered nearly all of it’s dip from early April.  So back to all time highs?  Maybe.  But Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals ...
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April 25, 2025 43 mins
Q2's market turbulence seemed to find footing this week, as the S&P had a nice bounce to end the week.  Let's go On The Markets with Sonoma Wealth Managing Principal Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir to look at: 
 
• While the S&P 500 is seeing a nice recovery in light of the tariff pause, Daren thinks he knows the exact spot where a downturn may pop up next. 
• Trying to go 2 for 2, Daren also makes a bold p...
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April 18, 2025 69 mins
Perhaps a calmer week in the S&P 500 as the Tariff Pause hits week 2.  While parties on both sides can argue their narrative, as we go On The Markets, with Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir, Chris Sipes CFP® and Daren Blonski CFP® dig into what the data is really saying about tariffs and the economy: 

• What top business leaders actually expect will happen to their prices and spending in the next 6 mont...
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April 11, 2025 54 mins
Daren Blonski is on assignment this week, so Marketing Director Dano Weir and SWA Managing Principal Chris Sipes CFP®, put their heads together and look at:  

0:00 Intro 
2:11 Orange Swan Event 
3:41 Salt Trae 
4:30 Sentiment in the toiler 
7:29 What would tariffs even make if they went into effect? 
13:56 Bear Market trends all the way back to 1800 
17:03 Volatility index saying S&P could surge 
19:10 Junk bonds saying recession may b...
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April 7, 2025 64 mins
News headlines would have you believing the sky is falling-  but what does the data say?  Setting aside a political conversation whether any of this should be happening, Sonoma Wealth Managing Principals Daren Blonski and Chris Sipes dig in to what the effect on the market has been and if further changes are imminent on a special episode of On The Markets.Together with Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir the...
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April 4, 2025 75 mins
Whether you checked headlines constantly or chose to put the phone on airplane mode for the entire week, it was hard to escape news of tariffs and the impact their uncertainty had on the market.  People hire advisors for just these moments- to talk you through what's happening, so let's go On The Markets. 

This week On The Markets Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir joins Managing Principals Daren Blonski CFP...
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March 28, 2025 56 mins
Happy End Of Q1! (...what, you don't measure life in fiscal quarters?)😂 Alright SO the US is definitely doing TARIFFS and, oh, well they won't be that much, actually they WILL be even more, but maybe not depending on, well actually now we've set a deadline and....that's about how the last few weeks have been haven't they? This week On The Markets Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir joins Managing Principals...
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March 23, 2025 35 mins
The Federal Reserve and their Fed Funds Interest Rate has perhaps more power over markets around the world than, well anything. This week On The Markets Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director and podcast host Dano Weir and Daren Blonski CFP® to look at:

• How all eyes remain fixed on Treasury Secretary Bessent's goal to get the 10 Year Treasury rate down, and what impact that could have on the market and your portfolio.
• Despite alleged "...
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