HeyJaredFinancial Education Re-Imagined: Susan’s Substack
What if the world isn’t as chaotic as it seems? There’s a pattern, woven from human ambition, fear, innovation, and belief. When you learn to see it, investing isn't a gamble, and you gain the power to both anticipate the future, and help shape it!
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The Freedom to Be Wrong (opens the original)
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When I began looking more closely at late-cycle risk, I assumed the challenge was primarily one of recognition. If I could understand enough about debt, valuation, liquidity, currencies, confidence and policy, perhaps I could identify when the environment was becoming dangerous and position myself accordingly. I still believe those things are worth understanding, but what has changed is the purpose for which I use them. I am less interested now in finding the indicator that proves the cycle has
When the World Stops Moving Together (opens the original)
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Through the 21st century globalization appeared to move in a fairly clear direction. Companies searched for lower costs, larger markets and more efficient supply chains. Capital moved internationally in search of return, while countries specialized in what they did well and purchased much of the rest from somewhere else. The system was never free of politics, but the economic incentive toward greater integration was strong enough that access to markets, goods, capital and infrastructure became s
The Limits of Rescue (opens the original)
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Watching the recovery from 2008, I came away with an assumption that seemed well supported by experience. If financial conditions deteriorated far enough, policymakers would eventually respond. The Federal Reserve could lower interest rates or provide liquidity. The federal government could support households, banks or industries. Regulators could protect parts of the financial system considered essential to maintaining confidence. The pandemic response reinforced that expectation, and the regio
The Confidence We Stop Seeing (opens the original)
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The 2008 financial crisis was what first pushed me to understand investing more seriously. Until then, I had entrusted much of that responsibility to others. Watching the value of my portfolio fall so dramatically forced me to recognize how little I understood about the forces moving beneath the prices I could see. In the years that followed, I began studying debt, credit, interest rates, valuation, liquidity and eventually the longer cycles through which those conditions develop.That search sha
When Volatility Changes Direction (opens the original)
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When I first began watching the Volatility Index, or VIX, I treated it as a thermometer. A low reading meant investors were calm. A high reading meant they were afraid. When markets declined and the VIX rose, the relationship seemed straightforward. Falling prices produced fear, and the index measured how much fear had entered the market.That interpretation was useful, but incomplete.Thanks for reading Financial Education Re-Imagi
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