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Ignore These 2025 Headlines... Here's The Truth About 2026

Ken McElroy Show

Ken McElroy

Education, Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.7712 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ken McElroy and Danille McElroy break down the biggest economic headlines of 2025, from inflation and interest rates to housing and consumer spending, and explain what the media got wrong. In this episode, they cut through the noise to show what actually happened, why prices stayed high, and what these misunderstood trends mean for investors and homeowners heading into 2026.

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Transcript

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Today we're going to talk about what the headlines got wrong in 2025 and how that's going to affect us in 2026.

0:07.9

Yeah, here we go again, guys.

0:09.6

What's really fun about this segment is we can now look back and make fun of, you know, call it the marketing campaigns that people use around stuff.

0:20.4

Yeah, and also just the clickbait stuff, right?

0:22.7

Because we all keep telling you that you can't just believe click, clickbait and people do

0:26.7

things for, you know, likes and views and all of that.

0:30.8

And you need to make sure you do your research into 2026 on what's really happening in the

0:35.9

market.

0:36.5

And we're going to prove this to you by going

0:38.5

into what 2025 headlines were saying. Yeah, and I'll just give an example. I got a YouTube video

0:44.7

sent to me this week about gold. And from Warren Buffett. And I'm like, okay, this is very odd.

0:51.7

And during the video, he's saying, hit the like button. I'm like, that's not Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett would never say that. And during the video, he's, he's saying, hit the like button.

0:54.9

I'm like, that's not Warren Buffett.

0:56.2

War II would never say that.

0:57.6

And the point is, be careful.

1:00.0

You know, this is an AI driven Warren Buffett gold video.

1:04.5

And so what you guys listen to and what you send around, I get them too.

1:09.9

You've got to be very, very, very selective and very

1:12.5

careful to weed through this this year. I just would ask you to weed through your stuff in

1:17.0

2026 with a little bit better eye because it's actually going to get worse. Yep. So let's jump into

1:24.3

headline number one. So inflation was transitory. So we've heard this, we've heard

1:30.9

this for a few years, but we also heard that earlier this year. Which means inflation's temporary.

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