The Return of Pax Americana
Over the last 12 years, academics from across the world have been quick to etch America’s terminal decline into stone. What these pontificators from their ivory towers fail to realize is that America’s enduring strength rests in its ability to transform itself through a process of creative destruction that unleashes innovation and global technological leadership. A decade after the Global Financial Crises, America is turning the page, allowing a relentless tide of transformative innovation to wash away the old order, ushering in positive disruptive change across the global economy. As 2021 progresses, we continue our relentless mission to identify companies that are leading this innovation revolution so that our clients can participate in this new American chapter of economic leadership and dominance.
In this week’s market review, our investment team will review the recent pullback in stock prices, assess the price and volatility data to gauge whether it’s a healthy reset or the beginning of something less benign. Afterward, it’s imperative that we do some work on the recent rise in bond yields, discuss some of the factors driving long-term rates higher, but more importantly, put these moves into a long-term perspective, which allows investors to make informed asset allocation decisions. Lastly, we will walk through the differences of passive index investing, which resembles communism vs. an active merit-based approach to investing that awards success and punishes failure.
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