Markets, Tariffs, and Volatility: Why Long-Term Investors Keep Winning | Money Moves

Millionaire Mindcast

Matt Aitchison

Business, Investing

4.8 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Money Moves, Matty A. and Ryan Breedwell break down the growing volatility hitting markets early in the year and why short-term fear continues to trap undisciplined investors.

They open with a look at bearish sentiment across stocks, crypto, and bonds, explaining why early-year pullbacks are both normal and healthy. The guys reinforce why long-term investors should view red weeks as opportunity—not danger—and why history consistently rewards patience over prediction.

The conversation then expands into geopolitics and policy, including tariffs, U.S.–EU trade tensions, Greenland, and how political posturing creates short-term uncertainty but rarely alters long-term market trajectories. Matty and Ryan explain why the U.S. market remains the best long-term wealth engine despite constant headline noise.

They also dive into asset allocation, dollar-cost averaging, diversification, and why trying to time market bottoms is a losing game. The episode wraps with updates on precious metals, crypto market pullbacks, regulatory clarity, housing trends, rising foreclosure data, and why discipline—not speculation—is the real edge for investors in 2026.

This episode is a reminder that markets reward simplicity, consistency, and conviction—not panic.

Topics Covered:

Bearish sentiment across stocks, crypto, and bonds
Why pullbacks are normal and necessary
Long-term investing vs. short-term speculation
Dollar-cost averaging and deploying dry powder
Diversification and portfolio discipline
U.S.–EU tariff tensions and geopolitical noise
Greenland, trade leverage, and market reactions
Precious metals hitting generational highs
Crypto pullbacks and future regulatory clarity
Single-family housing, institutional buyers, and foreclosures

Why time in the market beats timing the market

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0:00.0	If you've heard, you know, just the likes of Buffett and Munger and some of the best, you know,
0:04.9	long-term macro investors and traders and, you know, people that are thinking on the very long-term time horizon,
0:13.7	these are healthy parts and necessary parts of the financial markets, right?
0:20.6	I mean, nothing can go up forever
0:26.6	what's going on guys welcome back to another episode of money moves as always mattie a my co-host
0:34.4	mr ryan breedwell we're back Breedwell. We're back, baby.
0:38.1	We're back.
0:39.1	We're back.
0:39.8	We're back.
0:42.0	We're back.
0:42.7	We've got really a lot of stuff that is impact in the market right now, mainly geopolitical and political policy-based tensions, big stuff kind of going on with tariffs, with Greenland,
0:58.1	World Economic Forum and Davos is going on right now, and we're kind of seeing the overall
1:03.9	temperature of the world right now based on what Trump is doing.
1:13.8	And the market seems to be responding to a little bit.
1:14.9	So we'll talk about that.
1:21.3	We'll talk about what's going on with rates because we have a rate decision this week.
1:22.2	Yeah.
1:24.4	So I have a feeling.
1:25.3	I know what's going to have. We'll talk about that.
1:27.4	And we do have some updates.
1:29.7	Not a ton of stuff coming out of the housing market data right now, but I'll give some thoughts
1:35.2	and feedback there.
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