It isn't Goodbye- Final Thoughts For Now
My final thoughts before my break from podcasting. Hopefully we can get a YouTube channel set up, but its evident audio formatting is a challenge.
Why Micah Parsons Got ‘Laid Off’—and What It Teaches About Your Wallet
Teaching your kid about credit is like teaching them todrive—except the crashes are invisible and the seatbelt is made of dollarsigns.
Here, we’ll set the stage: why it’s crucial to give kids a head s…
Un-Americanizing America: The Hidden Cost of Woke Rebranding - A Story as old as Cracker Barrel
For the better part of a decade, a movement has chipped away at America’s cultural backbone—relabeling, rebranding, and erasing pieces of history in the name of “progress.” From the Washington Redski…
EPISODE 2 — All In or Fold: The Chip Table Showdown
The Opening Hand
- U.S. firms still hold the technology ace — leading-edge AIchips.
- China is short-stacked but aggressively building its ownfab capacity.
- The 15% levy is the buy-in to stay in the Ch…
EPISODE 1 — The 15% Payoff: Chips, China, and Cold War 2.0
The Deal Nobody Saw Coming
Technicals:
Nvidia & AMD agree to give 15% of AI chip export revenue to the U.S. government.
The chips in question: Nvidia’s H20 and AMD’s MI308 — high-end AI processors restr…
The 401k Time Bomb (and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)
The 401k was never designed to be your soleretirement plan—it was meant to supplement pensions, not replace them.
Median 401k balance for people in their 60s?Around $112,000.
-Companies love 401ks beca…
Engineered Division: How the Media Keeps Us Distracted and Divided
The Virtue Volcano: When Beauty Sparks OutrageThe American Eagle ad should’ve been just that—an ad. A beautiful model, a simple statement: “good genes.” But here comes the pitchfork parade, led by th…
Back to the Tariff - Market Panic, Retail Rise: The Aristocrats Get Discounted
Tariff Tsunami: The Whales Forgot Their FloatiesThe market caught a headline about tariffs and immediately folded like a lawn chairin a windstorm. 35% on Canadian goods. 25% on Mexico. And the crowd …
The Everything Code: Why Recession is Cancelled and Bitcoin’s Just Getting Started
Everything Code" theory—unpacking why traditional recessions might be a thing of the past in a world fueled by debt, liquidity cycles, and financial engineering. We explore how bond yields, the Fed’s…
Did South Park Just Cancel Trump and Colbert in One Episode?
In this episode of Year of the Cow, we break down South Park’s latest billion-dollar swing at Donald Trump—and what it says about the future of media. As the show reclaims its crown as the sharpest s…
Powell & Bessant: Lethal Weapon of the Fed
Alright, listen up. You may not know this yet—but there are two names you need to learn if you give even half a damn about your rent, your retirement, or the price ofground beef. Jerome Powell. Scott…
Allowance, Avocados, and Asset Classes: Why Boomers Think We’re Poor on Purpose
Welcome back to Year of the Cow. Today, we’regoing after sacred cows—specifically the Boomer vs. Millennial financial culture war, generational wealth, and why financial literacy for kids is more urg…
The Market’s on Mushrooms, and the Fed’s Still Gardening
Welcome back to Year of the Cow, where faith meetsfinance and Powell plays God with the weather. Today’s sermon? The gospel according to the Nasdaq, the heresy of the Fed, and why tech stocks have mo…
From Moo to Moon: Harvesting Your Portfolio - This upcoming Top 10 stocks to look out for.
Welcome back to Year of the Cow, where the fields are green, the bulls are busy, and the bears are wondering if they should’ve just stayed home. I’m Ryan Fair. After one of the strongest technical Q2…
Quantitative Sleazing: How the Fed Prints Confidence and Calls It Growth
Folks… it’s July 2025. CPI’s doing the tango at 3.4%, theFed Funds Rate sits like a silent sniper at 5.25%, and Jerome Powell still talks like he’s trying to explain algebra to an emotionally unavail…
There Should Be No Billionaires - A story as predictable as time itself!
Let’s start with this recurring nonsense I keep hearing from every couch activist between Kansas City and Boulder...
"There should be no billionaires!"
Stock Market Streets - A Recap of Last Weeks Movements.
🎙️ Year of the Cow – Mini Episode: “Last Week’s Market Madness & Crypto Climb”
Hey friends, Ryan Fair here—ready to make sense of the noise behind the numbers. Last week’s financial headlines? Markets…
Hezbollah, Debt, and Taylor Swift: Welcome to the End Times (With WiFi)
Welcome back to The Year of the Cow — where we don’t scream, we smirk. I’m your host Ryan Fair: Army vet, dad of three, and semi-functioning caffeine addict — here to break down the latest in global …
Yelling At Cows - When The World Went Soft
Play something upbeat, Americana-funky with cowbell andpatriotic undertones
Voiceover: “Welcome to The Year of the Cow: A Ryan Fair Podcast— where common sense wears boots, laughs at the chaos, and re…
No Bombs, No Peace: The Israel–Iran Fake Ceasefire!
"The Pause That Roared: Did Iran Just Blink… or Reload?"
In this episode of The Year of the Cow, Ryan Fair breaks down the suspiciously quiet moment in the Iran–Israel conflict — the kind of silence t…