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.
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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