Another TBB post with the final edition of the Best of Year lists. In this edition I focus exclusively on the best material I found covering the Finance Investing and Markets landscape. So, enjoy learning about some of the lessons we learned from yet another crazy year in the markets, what the ETFs did, look at some amazing charts, warn you about rug pulls in the crypto land, look at the performance returns of the asset classes and more!
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Every year around the holidays I blog about annual best of year lists I find. When I get to ten of them I post. So, keep coming back or enter your email address and click “SUBSCRIBE” on the right so you never miss a post!
I hope there is something in here for you to learn.
10 Lessons from 2021
2021: The Year in Charts
ETFs in Pictures 2021
The Biggest Threat to Trust in Cryptocurrency: Rug Pulls Put 2021 Scam Revenue Close to All-time Highs
2021: A Year in Returns
The Financial Lessons of 2021
How Every Asset Class, Currency, and S&P 500 Sector Performed in 2021
Investment lessons the markets taught in 2021 (Part 1)
Some stats that stood out:
- Retail sales surged 22% above pre-Covid levels in the fifteen months from the start of the pandemic. The three stimulus payments were the primary reason for this.
- Inflation started the year at 1.8% and ended at 6.8%.
- Number of job openings exceeds number of unemployed people by 4.2 million.
- Another all time high is the percentage of workers who are quitting their jobs: 3%.
- Highest number of daily closing record highs in the S&P 500 was 77 in 1995. Second highest was in 2021 with 70.
- US National Debt at the end of 2021 stood at $29.6 trillion.
Expect more surprises again in 2022!
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Thank you!
The ETF link is terrific.
Maybe I should start a new blog “Money Blogger Buzz”? 🙂
I may add to this post if I find anything TBB worthy to add. The last link, Part 2, is supposed to drop today…will see if it is as good as Part I.
The new Chase Freedom Unlimited card offer is great. Maybe it was good that my daughter was denied for the Citi Premier. 3% on all spend up to $20k in the first year!
Silver! For the Pacific Northwest! Man, that article on all the Crypto scams. I still do not understand that Crypto stuff OR the NFT craze and expect it all to go BOOM one of these days and take a lot of folks down. It ain’t for me, that is for sure! Equities, ETFs and such is about as risky as I want to get.
Have a great weekend!!
So I guess you are not in for my TBB NFT then, sad! 🙂
Do you have a link to the 150K Chase United Business card? Also, any idea if I can get for a second one while the first is still open?
As of Saturday Jan 15 early morning, no. And no idea when it will be added. Because tiny blogs like mine are way low on the priority list 🙁
I do not know if you can get one while first one is still open. Any data points out there? May be possible with different business is my best guess.
Thank you for thinking about me, much appreciated.