RenMac breaks down a hawkish shift from the Fed and why higher real yields are reshaping market leadership beneath the surface. The team discusses Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent&#x27;s economic agenda, the rotation away from the Mag 7, mounting stress in private credit, the outlook for Iran and oil prices, and why improving market breadth is encouraging—but not yet an all-clear signal

RenMac Off-Script: Flying Blind

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Here we go. All right. Welcome to RenMac Off-Script, where we openly discuss markets, economics, policy, history, and life. It is Friday, June 26, 2026. I'm Steve Duttaenhofer. I'm Jeff deGraaf. I'm Neil Dutta. And I'm Steve Pavlik. Neil, Admiral McRaven would be very proud of you for making your bed in the background. Good work. Well, thank you. Thank you for pointing it out.

Where are you? Before we started recording. Yeah, where are you? I'm in Atlanta. Hotlanta. There you go. Well, let's start with you then, because we had a dinner this past week, Economics Club in New York, with Secretary Besant, who I think had some interesting comments with respect to what the Fed is likely to do going forward. So why don't you highlight some of the things that you picked up from the dinner?

Well, I mean, he centered the speech around sort of economic sovereignty and how that ties into national security. So I thought that was interesting. So I thought that was interesting. That was sort of the crux of the speech. I think that was a lot of the things that I think that was a lot of people who are going forward to.

RenMac Off-Script: Flying Blind

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RenMac Off-Script: Flying Blind

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
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