by John Mauldin | Jan 24, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
The human brain excels at taking shortcuts. Processing all the information our senses collect takes a lot of energy, so repetitive data gets lower priority. Things we see often fade into the background so we can notice new stuff. This is where we get phenomena like...
by John Mauldin | Jan 17, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
We haven’t had a lot of good news lately. Or, more precisely, we haven’t seen a lot of good news lately, though it does exist. We don’t see it because both regular media and social media usually focus on the bad. That’s not entirely wrong. The survival imperative...
by John Mauldin | Jan 10, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
If living dangerously is your goal, just keep adding reasonable, manageable, prudent risks. Eventually they’ll add up to serious danger. Hyman Minsky showed how stability leads to instability. Humans have a way of reinterpreting stable periods that seemingly redefines...
by John Mauldin | Jan 3, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
Welcome to the 2020s. Some weren’t sure we would make it this far, but we did. Now we face a new decade and new challenges. How we handle them will determine what kind of conversation we have in 2030. This concern for the future is one of the things that separates...
by John Mauldin | Dec 20, 2019 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
Ignoring problems rarely solves them. You need to deal with them—not just the effects, but the underlying causes, or else they usually get worse. The older you get, the more you know that is true in almost every area of life. In the developed world and especially the...
by John Mauldin | Dec 13, 2019 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to...
