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Lowering Risk as We Enter Forced Frugality

Lowering Risk as We Enter Forced Frugality

If things unravel, these risk-reduction strategies quickly shift from "nice to have" to "essential." But by then, it will be too late to put them in place.

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Oct 20, 2023
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I would summarize the economic flow of recent events as:

2020-21: massive stimulus and pandemic restrictions build up household savings and generate a stock market "meme stock" bubble.

mid-2021-22: "Revenge Spending" splurging generates massive spike in consumption, profiteering and inflation.

2023: Renewed bubbles in housing and stocks, a classic "rebound…

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