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5 Lessons From an Awful Year For Financial Markets

A Wealth of Common Sense

Most investors would probably like to move on and forget about 2022 when it comes to market performance. It was an all-time bad year for the markets. You learn more about yourself during a bear market than a bull market. This piece I wrote at Fortune delves into 5 lessons for investors from 2022.

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crossingwallstreet.com) The best books Ben read in 2022 including "Die With Zero" by Bill Perkins. awealthofcommonsense.com) A look at the best charts of 2022. topdowncharts.substack.com) Six things that don't change in financial markets including the attraction of 'shiny objects.'

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Why Markets Were Down in 2022

A Wealth of Common Sense

There were a number of reasons for the large losses in financial markets this past year — the Fed went on a rating hiking rampage, bond yields rose a great deal, inflation hit 40 year highs, there was a war and about a dozen other factors. Sometimes the reason asset prices fall is because they went up too much in the f.

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Nobody Knows Anything, Dot Plot Edition

The Big Picture

” Here are the June 2016 dot plots: Fast forward to September 2021, where the Fed imagined 2023 fund rates to be around 1%: Now, March 2022 dots imagined a year later we’d be about 3%: Last, the current September 2023 Dot Plot, which I guess is comforting(?)

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How Do Active Managers Invest Their Own Money?

The Big Picture

The researchers describe financial markets as “slowly evolving communities of practice whose habits, routines and ways of knowing can be difficult to shift, even when faced with overwhelming evidence that what they are doing doesn’t work most of the time.”

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10 Thursday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Why Markets Were Down in 2022 : there was also an Occum’s razor answer for the losses in financial markets in 2022. The year EVs outgrew Tesla : The transition to electric vehicles hit several milestones in 2022. ( 2022 Was One of the Worst Years Ever For the Markets.

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MiB: The Jeremies! Schwartz and Siegel on SFTLR!

The Big Picture

Chancellor is the author of “ Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation.” His new book “ The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest ” is a nominee for FT’s 2022 Business Book of the Year. The latest SFTLR by Jeremy Siegel with Jeremy Schwartz. Favorite Books of Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz.

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