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		kevinmchugh on May 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wa... > it was all so obvious that inflation, war and fed rising rates will happen, right I'm an extremely boring passive investor who doesn't know anything about macroeconomics but I was definitely hearing people across the political spectrum warning about inflation 2 years ago. And as long as I've been on this site people have thought the Fed's interest rate was causing market distortions.

ackbar03 on May 30, 2022 [–]

Yes, and everyone would have been right in that observations. But they probably would have lost money anyway because saying something happens 2 years before it does is dead wrong in terms of investing and you would have had your eyeballs squeezed out by the market rally we had last year if you tried to short

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