Truce or Trap? Market Swings on Trump's Deadline & Crypto Mortgages | Money Moves
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.8 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What a time to be an investor! On this episode of Money Moves, Matty A. and Ryan Breedwell dive into the massive market volatility driven by the escalating US-Iran conflict and President Trump's intense posturing. With an 8 PM deadline looming and futures swinging wildly on ceasefire rumors, Ryan breaks down how institutional money is playing the chaos—and why you should stick to your plan. Plus, they explore a groundbreaking new crypto-backed mortgage product and the growing distress in the commercial real estate market.
Episode Highlights
The Geopolitical Shockwaves: Ryan discusses the wild market swings, noting that despite the intense headlines and Trump's 8 PM deadline, he successfully bought the dip last Thursday right before a major market rally. They analyze the impact of "The Don" and his aggressive posturing on the world stage.
Oil, Inflation & The Fed: Despite the noise, oil prices are retracting, and Ryan predicts a sub-3% CPI report. They also discuss the future of interest rates, with Ryan firmly predicting a rate cut in July once the new Fed Chair is appointed.
Crypto Enters the Mortgage Market: Coinbase and Fannie Mae have partnered with Better Home and Finance to allow homebuyers to use Bitcoin and USDC as collateral for down payments, a major step for crypto integration in traditional finance.
- Commercial Real Estate Distress: CMBS distress debt rates have climbed to 12%, with delinquency cycles reaching 9.6%. Matty breaks down what this means for regional banks and commercial investors caught in the "messy middle" of maturing loans.
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| 0:00.0 | We are witnessing a masterclass in the markets. |
| 0:06.3 | Really nobody has no idea what's going on, |
| 0:07.9 | except for Mr. Breedwell. |
| 0:09.0 | You talking about me? |
| 0:10.5 | Because the Iran-U.S. conflict right now is sending the market all over the place, |
| 0:17.4 | and we have a lot of news to break down today. We missed you guys last week. We'll see in today's |
| 0:24.0 | episode. What's going on, guys, welcome back to today's show. |
| 0:53.0 | Man, what a time to be alive. I love it. |
| 0:58.7 | I mean, this is, what a time to be an investor. What a time to be alive. It just is, I mean, we're witnessing, like, historical time in the world right now. |
| 1:12.3 | And it's sending shockwaves throughout, |
| 1:16.8 | obviously the Middle East, throughout the U.S., |
| 1:18.5 | throughout just the globe in general. |
| 1:21.2 | And we're going to unpack really what's going on today |
| 1:25.0 | because as we were talking right now, |
| 1:27.9 | the market towards the end of the day popped on news of a potential deal slash ceasefire, |
| 1:35.8 | whether or not that gets inked or we've heard Trump's tweets over the last few days |
| 1:40.7 | have been somewhat unhinged based on what you would think a sitting president |
| 1:46.3 | would be saying, I don't know if there's ever been any president that, not president, |
| 1:51.3 | any world leader that has talked the way Trump has. And he is posturing and it's got nobody |
| 1:56.7 | knows what head fake, which direction, what's going on. So we're going to try and unpack that here |
| 2:01.8 | today. We've also got some additional updates and what's going on. We'll obviously talk about |
| 2:08.0 | CPI rate cuts, what's going on in the markets, some updates on the real estate front, |
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