Navigating Wealth
Navigating Wealth
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Market Rate Hikes? This 38-Year Monetarist Disagrees - Jay Hatfield
45 minutes Posted Jun 17, 2026 at 3:10 pm.
- Welcome to Navigating Wealth: Jay Hatfield
- Inflation Insights & Interest Rate Predictions
- Why the 1970s Inflation Comparison May Be Wrong
- Do Deficits Drive Inflation?
- Key Drivers of Inflation & Oil Price Predictions
- Market Responses & Economic Resilience
- The Fed’s Dual Mandate & Stagflation
- Understanding Inflation & Interest Rates
- The Impact of AI on Economic Growth
- Housing Market Dynamics & Interest Rates
- Energy Costs & Data Center Development
- Evaluating the SpaceX IPO
- Investment Strategies in a Changing Market
- Where to Learn More About Jay Hatfield
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The highest inflation in three years has the market pricing in rate hikes. A 38-year Wall Street monetarist thinks that's exactly backwards, and that the Fed is clear to cut. 

Today we welcome Jay Hatfield, founder, CEO, and portfolio manager at Infrastructure Capital Advisors, where he runs nine income ETFs. A CPA and Wharton-trained monetary economist with 38 years on Wall Street, Jay makes the contrarian case that the recent inflation spike is a near-term oil-price illusion about to reverse, not the start of a wage-price spiral. 

He breaks down why he ignores the labor report, why deficits and strong employment don't drive inflation, and the four or five indicators he actually uses to forecast rates and the business cycle. 

This conversation is for investors trying to separate signal from consensus on interest rates, oil, the AI earnings boom, and where to position before the next move. Jay also walks through his DCF on the SpaceX IPO and the "Musk premium" that could push it far above fair value.

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