540: Outlook and Predictions for 2026

First off — Happy New Year.

To kick off the year, this week’s episode of the Wealth Formula Podcast is a solo one from me. I spend the episode walking through my outlook for 2026 and sharing a few predictions for how I think this cycle is going to play out.

Lately, I keep hearing the same question phrased in different ways. The economy feels tight, but markets are holding up. Growth is coming in stronger than expected, inflation is easing, and yet a lot of the signals people usually rely on just don’t seem to be lining up.

That disconnect is really the starting point for this episode.

Rather than reacting to headlines or making short-term calls, I wanted to step back and talk through the mechanics of what’s actually driving this environment — and why it looks so different from the cycles most of us learned about.

A lot of it comes down to debt, policy constraints, how capital moves today, and the growing influence of technology. When you start looking at those pieces together, some of the things that feel confusing begin to make a lot more sense.

This isn’t meant to be alarmist or overly optimistic. It’s simply an attempt to frame the environment clearly so you can think about it more intelligently — especially if you’re deploying capital or deciding whether it makes sense to sit on the sidelines.

If you’ve felt like the economy and the markets aren’t really speaking the same language right now, I think you’ll find this episode useful.

Transcript

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Welcome everybody. This is Buck Joffrey with the Wealth Formula Podcast, and today I am going to do something a little bit different. I’m gonna kind of give you. My perspective, maybe predictions I dare say about, uh, the upcoming year in 2026, how I look at it, what I think, uh, uh, is likely outcome and why.

Not that I am any smarter than any of you on this stuff, but I’ve actually kind of sat down and, and thought about, you know, the things that are going on in the macroeconomic. Side of things and, um, put some stuff together and, uh, hopefully you’ll enjoy it. We’ll have, uh, that right after these messages.

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I forgot to even say that in the intro. How rude of me. Hopefully you had a great holiday, you had a great Christmas, and you’re bringing in the new year with a vision of health and wealth and PO prosperity and all that stuff. So anyway, let’s talk a little bit about, uh, you know what I am. Kinda looking at for 2026.

Now, when you think about, well, what are these predictions and what could they be and a