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Dumb Money: Fueling The Market Since COVID

Dumb Money: Fueling The Market Since COVID

What happens when you give people billions of dollars and lock them at home? The stock market returns 24%!

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Mar 06, 2025
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In April of 2024 I sent a post called The Status of The Markets to subscribers. In it, I made some bold contrarian predictions. The graphic I sent out looked like this:

It’s nothing special, just a prediction of general market performance based on the economic trends I was seeing at the time. While we aren’t a full year out from this newsletter being sen…

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