Financial Stories That Dominated 2022

It is not transitory. All the world central banks got the policy wrong during Covid.

The true recession will happen when businesses start to lay off employees.

No more Russian oil for Europe of the United States. Instead that oil is going to India, China and North Korea.

Crypto as a whole has had a bad year.

Historic protests. Covid is still raging throughout the country.

The overall market continues to decline into 2023.

Who would have thought that Southwest Airlines would be company to meltdown and right after they reinstated the dividend.

Another example of why an investor should never invest into the airline business.

Will Charles change the monetary structure of The Crown or The Firm. Whatever they call it.

People really hate Elon now.

But time will tell if he can actually make Twitter a lot more profitable.

The global population crossed this market.

More people means more consumers.

I wonder how this change in U.S. policy will affect healthcare spending.

I find it ironic that Communist countries always refer to their government as a revolution. But in Iran people are actually protesting against the existing 'revolution'. Believe it or not Iran does have a stock market and a lot of oil. If their government implodes, unlikely, it would have an affect.

I still believe in the power of the Zuck. But there have been a lot of things working against Facebook these last few years. Nobody seems to want to use the Metaverse.

This is probably the most impactful story. The Republicans took control of the House but not the Senate. Which means that the parties will have to compromise to get anything done in Washington, which generally does not happen. The stock market usually does better under a split government, but the looking recession and FED rate hikes will continue to put downward pressure on stock.

Bonds are back in favor now that the FED was forced to increase the interest rate.