The World Kept Building

For every crisis that shook the markets, somewhere on earth humans were solving problems, making breakthroughs, and quietly expanding what’s possible. 

On the last podcast I made mention of a chart that Dimensional Funds put out; a familiar one showing how stock markets have trended up over the long term despite the fact that along the way we constantly get hit by one crisis after another. 

Years back I wrote a blog post that went year by year for my entire life, mentioning the worst big bad news stories that happened each year in a table format, tracking the ever-increasing S&P 500 value and long term annualized return alongside. I titled it with an absolutely clickbaity title: Why You Should Avoid Stocks and have updated it every now and then, tacking a few more years on, as I get older, and as we muddle through more geopolitical crises.

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The World Kept Building

For every geopolitical shock that rattled markets since 1973 — from the oil embargo to the trade wars of 2025 — humans were quietly making history. A long-term investor’s guide to keeping perspective.

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