Market Commentary
Timely viewpoints on the market and the economic and investment environment.
January 2018
(Ir)rational Exuberance
Annually in January, of course, market predictions for the future abound. Reading the news in January is thus an exercise in incredulity – about the certainty the prognosticators declare about an inherently uncertain future.
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