Facts vs Feelings with Ryan Detrick & Sonu Varghese

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Rory Johnston Returns (FvF Ep. 207)

2026-09-3051:45

In Episode 207 of the Facts vs Feelings podcast, Carson Group’s Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist, welcome back Rory Johnston, founder and CEO of Commodity Context, to make sense of an oil market that remains historically tight more than 200 days into the war with Iran. Rory explains why Brent sits near $108 with extreme backwardation, why roughly 13.5 million barrels a day are now moving through the Strait of Hormuz versus a pre-war normal of ab...

Tech or Bust? (FvF Ep. 206)

2026-09-2357:29

In Episode 206 of the Facts vs Feelings Podcast, Carson Group’s Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist, dig into the Mag 7's surge to a new all-time high, edging out the S&P 500 itself. The hosts point to Meta's blockbuster rally, up double digits on the back of a new AI agent that's been downloaded nearly a million times in less than a week, along with chip and semiconductor names like AMD, Intel, and Arm Holdings that all posted big gains as the...

Social Hour With Jay Woods and Scott Brown (Ep. 5)

2026-09-2101:02:41

The Social Hour is back after a summer break, and this livestream edition came loaded. Carson Group’s Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist, are joined by two technical analysis heavyweights: Jay Woods, Chief Market Strategist at Freedom Capital Markets and CNBC contributor, and Scott Brown, Founder and Strategist at Brown Technical Insights. Fair warning: Scott was cheerfully reminded he was the (second? fifth?) choice to fill in for CNBC anchor Mor...

Is AI Going To Kill All Of Us? (FvF Ep. 205)

2026-09-1658:37

In Episode 205 of the Facts versus Feelings Podcast, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist at Carson Group, tackle the AI story dominating headlines: a viral tweet from a former Anthropic employee warning about civilization-level risk, an OpenAI/Hugging Face sandbox incident where AI agents were caught cheating and covering their tracks, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow the AI frontier and create third-party auditors. The...

Everything's Running Hot! (FvF Ep. 204)

2026-09-0901:01:00

In Episode 204 of the Facts versus Feelings Podcast, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, Chief Macro Strategist at Carson Group, dig into why "everything's running hot" across the US economy. The hosts unpack the August jobs report, including a much stronger than expected 162,000 jobs created, upward revisions to prior months, a tick higher in labor force participation, and a steady 4.1% unemployment rate now sitting below 4.5% for a record 59 straight mo...

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Facts vs Feelings with Ryan Detrick & Sonu Varghese