The chart below shows the actual quarter to quarter growth of the US economy since 2016.
Retail investors like Monday Morning Program members justifiably always felt that the stock market and the economy moved in parallel. When the market was doing well, they were doing well. Conversely, when the market was doing poorly, investors (not Monday Morning Program members) were doing poorly.
True to form, the 32.9% drop in the US economy from its previous quarter coincided with the worst market drop in history.
That phenomenon began to diverge in 2020. On March 23, 2020, Federal Reserve announced extensive measures to support the economy.
From that point on, up to last Friday, the market grew by 38% even as the economy continues to do badly! One of the measures taken by the Federal Reserve was introduction of the lowest interest rates in history! That encourages stock market investing.
Monday Morning Program Members rebalanced to their personality selected asset allocation and took profits. They are smiling.
When the inevitable reversion to the mean takes place and the market drops, Monday Morning Program members will continue smiling as they snap up the bargains which will develop.
As we frequently state, with the Habits of Monday Morning Millionaires, luck hardly matters.
Good luck!
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