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Wednesday links: a new revenue model

Abnormal Returns

(allstarcharts.com) Bitcoin hit its highest level since November 2021. blockworks.co) Strategy Rubin Miller, "Investing on hopes and hunches — making emotional decisions — is why so few portfolios earn the actual market return." behaviouralinvestment.com) Why the 60/40 portfolio isn't going anywhere.

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Observations to Start 2023

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Holding onto expectations of major shifts in key drivers of the markets and the economy – merely due to the changing of the calendar – is a carryover from the days when the calendar mattered much more. Consider: From 2010 through 2021, The S&P500 Index gained 330% — a little over 13% annually (not including dividends).

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Danny Kahneman: What if Everything is Narrative Fallacy?

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2020: Covid : With the economy closed, people locked down, and local businesses crashing, many were expecting a replay of the previous market crash. 2021 Inflation Surge : In March 2021, CPI shot through the feds upside target of 2%. This was a money-losing set of narratives.

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Tuesday links: detrimental behavior

Abnormal Returns

capitalspectator.com) 2022 was the third worst year for the 60/40 portfolio. in 2022 vs. 2021. nytimes.com) The UK has 'deconverged' from the rest of the global economy. nytimes.com) Economy Where various measures of the jobs market stand. Markets How major asset classes performed in December 2022. etf.com) Global U.S.

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What Else Might be Driving Sentiment?

The Big Picture

I run through 30 charts in 30 minutes that explain where we are in the economic cycle, what markets are doing, and what it means to their portfolios. The economy is not on the right track, even as Americans’ Net Worth Surged by Most in Decades During Pandemic. This quarter, it was Sentiment.

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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

2 The current move from 2021 highs is shown in red. 2000-13 : Secular bear market did not make new highs until March 2013 2018 : ~20% pullback as the economy slowed, FOMC hiked. My portfolio was tiny; I had no 401k, and my wife’s 403(b), with less than a decade’s worth of contributions, was barely 5-figures.

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The Least Bad Choice

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to blame, but I want to suggest that the 2021-22 Inflation surge and resulting higher prices were the cost of avoiding a different fate. Oh, and the economy would have hurtled into the worst depression since the Great Depression of 1929. The public wants someone ( anyone !) Total US death count: 10 or 20 million.