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Check out the fascinating chart below: it illustrates the behavior of bull markets during the first three years of their existence. 2023 underperformed the Year One average. Year Two, 2024, more than made up for it. And Year Three? Well, that would be this year, 2025, and as you can plainly see, the historical behavior of the third years of bull markets tends to be flat, to put it kindly.
My advice: don’t ever get sick or hurt!
I was walking my dog (sniff…………) this morning when I noticed just about the only surviving Black Lives Matter signs in Palo Alto looked within days of being thrown in the garbage. No matter what folks think, even in a town like Palo Alto, maybe 1% of the yards had some kind of virtue-signaling yard sign even during the height of the deification of a convicted felon who died of a drug overdose. I was curious as to the history of this particular yard, and I have composed a little essay for you in three pictures.
