Stephanie Pomboy: Get Ready For A Wild Ride In 2026

**Adam Taggart** (0:02)
All right, and we should be live. Welcome to Thoughtful Money. I'm Thoughtful Money Founder and your host, Adam Taggart, welcoming you here for another monthly Macro Maven Marvelous Update from the Macro Maven herself, Stephanie Pomboy. Hey, Steph, how are you doing?

**Stephanie Pomboy** (0:18)
I'm great, Adam. How are you?

**Adam Taggart** (0:20)
Good. Happy New Year. I hope you had a wonderful holiday.

**Stephanie Pomboy** (0:23)
I sure did, although it seems like forever ago at this point. The first two weeks of the year feel like a decade already.

**Adam Taggart** (0:33)
I know. Well, we titled this Get Ready for a Wild Ride in 2026 If the first two weeks of the year are any example of that, I think we're spot on there. Did Willamina get, did Santa leave some good snacks for her under the tree?

**Stephanie Pomboy** (0:47)
I mean, every day is Christmas for her, as I'm sure the same for Boston and Bodega. They probably are equally spoiled, I have to imagine.

**Adam Taggart** (0:55)
They had a good time. We spoiled them more with hikes and whatnot.
They have loved it. Their labs, it's a breed that was bred in the cold Newfoundland North, but they'd never seen snow before and it has unlocked something in them. They just can't get enough of it. They love it. The first thing you see, that's awesome.

**Stephanie Pomboy** (1:16)
Good.

**Adam Taggart** (1:16)
They're doing well. Speaking of Willamina though, I think I hear her gently, the soothing sounds of Bulldog. Well, I'm glad she joined us here today. All right. Well, look, there's an awful lot to talk about. I also polled our audiences on X to see if they had questions. I've got a ton. So I'm going to ask my questions. I'm going to ask some of theirs. If there's time left over, we'll open it up to folks watching here in the live chat. But most important topic to start with, Steph, is that your and Grant Williams' super happy, terrific day conference is just a month away.

**Stephanie Pomboy** (1:53)
It's fast approaching. I know. I can't believe it. It feels like we, when we started planning this, that it was like forever down the road. And then I blink and all of a sudden it's here. And I'm so excited. I know I mentioned this last time that you're going to join us for that, because I think that just adds such a fun element to the whole proceedings. So super excited to have you. And we've got a great line up, including people that you often have here on your program.
So it'll be a great opportunity to mix it up with people like yourself and Grant and me and the people at Copernic, as well as Tom McClellan and Tom Hannig. Mike Green, too? Yeah. So, yeah, it's going to be a fun. It's an interesting and diverse cast of characters. And like you said, given what how this year has started, the timing could be fortuitous.

**Adam Taggart** (2:50)
It could definitely not be more timely. All right. So for folks that would like to attend, or at least learn about the event, where should they go?

**Stephanie Pomboy** (2:57)
Yeah. Well, I will post this on my Twitter. I have posted it and I'll pin it on my Twitter feed at spomboy, a link to register or you could go to macromavens.com and inquire there. But let me post it. It's probably best for me to just post it on the Twitter. And there's a registration link and it is immediately after Presidents Weekend. So it's September, sorry, September, February, February 17th and 18th in sunny South Florida in St. Petersburg, which is just a really cute town and it's a beautiful hotel that we do the venue at, an old historic hotel.
So great opportunity to get out of the cold weather for a little bit.

**Adam Taggart** (3:46)
Yeah, I can't wait to go for the fun and the people, but also, yeah, to get out of the cold that we're having here and just spend some time there. So folks, if you want to join us for fun in the sun with Steph and Grant and the A-listers that they've assembled for this event, please come join us. All right, Steph, well, look, the topic that is on everybody's mind this morning, especially in regards to you, who's been such a champion for the Precious Medals, is...

**Stephanie Pomboy** (4:15)
Now what?

**Adam Taggart** (4:16)
Yeah, now what? I mean, we're in a clear melt up, at least for Sober, for sure. But both Gold and Sober, as of this morning, hit all time highs. Yet again, Sober futures were, at one point at least, above $92 an ounce. I can't believe those words are leaving my mouth.