by John Mauldin | Feb 16, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
If you’re a parent or grandparent, you may know of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” storybook series. Written in second person, they make “you” the hero. The reader makes choices as the story unfolds, leading to one of several possible endings. That format is...
by John Mauldin | Feb 9, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
One of the more fascinating and mysterious parts of watching the Federal Reserve is the ongoing dialogue between Fed leaders and Wall Street. We imagine private meetings held in great secrecy. Those may in fact occur, but I’m not sure they are even necessary. The...
by John Mauldin | Feb 2, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
Modern economies, even small ones, are unfathomably complex. The number of variables is far more than any human can comprehend or any model can track. It’s really no wonder so many forecasts are wrong. In my 2024 forecast letter I predicted “A Muddle-Through Year.”...
by John Mauldin | Jan 26, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
In thinking about the 2020s, I often find myself looking back to the 1920s. That decade began with a deep recession/depression and ended with a stock market crash. While we now see the 1920s as a kind of “in between” period, people at the time didn’t know another...
by John Mauldin | Jan 19, 2024 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
“Two is better than one” is a nice saying, but it really depends on what you’re describing. Two hurricanes or earthquakes aren’t better than one. Just one disaster at a time will suffice, thank you very much. The same holds true for man-made crises like the debt...
