As we navigate through the tail end of 2021, the financial press is once again overflowing with predictions. It is human nature to crave certainty which can lead to us supporting predictions that best fit the information we have consumed.
There are a few foolproof ways to make yourself sound smart. One is to dwell and pontificate on the negative and what might happen to take the world down. The other, is to use fancy lingo to explain a simple concept.
As humans, we constantly wrestle with trying to make the complex simpler in order to make it fit within a framework that we can understand and control. 2020 was a reminder that life is sometimes complex, and that… is unavoidable.
Despite having experienced strong market growth this year, we’ve had a fair number of emotional phone calls with investors who are worried about the possibility of a market crash because of Trump, trade, tariff’s, debt levels, social unrest, political unrest, recession and the list goes on.