Fun Fact Friday 🎆 1/5/2024

Hey Friends,
Happy New Year! I wanted to take a minute to look back on this past year with 5 fun facts and a longer quote than usual.

Blessings,
Andrew

Fun Fact 1:
Credit card interest rates hit a record high of 21.19% last year.

Source: Charlie Bilello

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Fun Fact 2:
Home prices did not come down with the recent mortgage rates rise.

Source: Charlie Bilello

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Fun Fact 3:
Last year, US labor participation was up near May 2002 levels.

Source: Charlie Bilello

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Fun Fact 4:
Free market capitalism out performed central planning by almost 200% over the last 10 years.

Source: Charlie Bilello

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Fun Fact 5:
Here’s a fun chart showing the U.S. Stock Market winners and losers of 2023. (To view it larger, click/tap the image.)

Source: The Visual Capitalist, Finviz.com, Barron’s, Reuters, Fidelity

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Quote I’m pondering:

“The market doesn’t have to do anything, least of all what you think it should do. The market does what it wants, when it wants to do it. It is the real-time personification of collective human psychology, with fear and greed on full display. That’s what makes it so hard and at the same time so interesting. There are times when skepticism is warranted and other times when you need to suspend disbelief, with no manual to help you decipher which situation applies.” – Charlie Bilello

 

 

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