Scott Martin

It looks like Future Proof is in the process of spinning up a high-altitude counterpart. Matt Middleton leaked to a rival publication that he's preparing a "Breakthru Retreat" in Colorado Springs next spring.

This one is going to be far from the Huntington Beach venue that has taken Future Proof from experimental start-up to industry linchpin event in only two years. For one thing, it's going to start intimate and intensive: attendance capped at 500.

Donald Trump said so many things on "Meet The Press" last weekend that one of the biggest bombshells went practically uncommented in our world. It turns out he's taking credit for the Fed's unusually abrupt pivot from tightening rates in 2018 to a long pause and then cuts in 2019.

In other words, someone from the White House is claiming to have pushed the theoretically isolated and independent Fed around . . . and that Jay Powell in particular backed down.

Here's the quote:

Wealth management is one of the talking businesses. Whether you talk about the market, your clients' goals or how the two fields fit together, delivering advice revolves around communication. 

That's why people are talking themselves hoarse at Future Proof. Put that many industry perspectives in close proximity and take away most of the screens and the ideas are going to flow pretty fierce.

The Future Proof experience completely clicked for me once I got the literal 40,000-foot view on the flight in from Maine. My seatmates were both in the industry. One was also going to the show. The other was going to a more focused organization-only event.

I've withheld their specific affiliations to protect their privacy. But one was eager to expand on what he does and how he's changing the world, one hard-to-manage account at a time.