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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 40-year high inflation, increasing interest rates and the war in Ukraine have caused uncertainty in the stock markets.
- The Federal Reserve has started raising interest rates and is expected to raise it 6 more times in 2022.
- The yield curve (A graph showing interest rates of bonds of various maturities) has inverted. This is usually a harbinger of a recession. However, it has only inverted in some portions and is steep in other portions making it unclear when a recession could occur.
- The drop in stocks and an 8% expected growth in corporate earnings have made stocks 10% cheaper than they were at the beginning of the year.
- Stocks are a better asset class than residential real estate to grow wealth over the long term. Over the long-term, stocks have returned twice as much as residential real estate. If you had invested in a portfolio of stocks with long-term discipline and had continually added to it, you would have historically done much better than with homes. Additionally, stocks are highly liquid and can easily be a source of funds with very low transaction costs.