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We discuss:
- How many people would’ve guessed the markets and economy would be where they are at the end of this decade?
- The best charts of the decade courtesy of YCharts
- Gas prices haven’t budged all decade
- Why do people on Wall Street still do year-end forecasts?
- Who does Jerome Powell follow on Twitter?
- Different types of Twitter accounts
- When will ETF assets surpass mutual fund assets?
- How mom and pop passed the torch to wealth managers
- The best reasons for continued U.S. dominance in the stock market
- Why young people are watching less TV
- The drunk shopping industry is a real thing
- The best memes of 2019
- The tooth fairy and Santa Claus
- The excellent new Bob Iger book and much more
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Stories mentioned:
- How the Fed Chairman forged interest rate consensus
- The slow demise of mutual funds
- Wall Street predicts high single-digit gains next year but is likely wrong
- Stock investors sidestep FOMO
- Does this make any sense?
- As not seen on TV
- 52 things I learned in 2019
- The best memes of 2019
- Double digit returns are the norm for the stock market
- The drunk shopping census
- The extraordinary upside potential of sequence of return risk
- New fund, new partners, same old strategy
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