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3. 5.5 ETFs Per Trading Day Launched in 2026
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4. VIX Volatility Index Breaking to Previous Lows
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6. XLF Financials ETF Break Out to New Highs
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7. Everything We Experienced in 2020’s Can’t Take Stock Market Down-Ben Carlson
To reach new highs again and again in the 2020s investors have had to ignore:
- A global pandemic.
- The fastest 30%+ drawdown in history.
- A supply chain crisis.
- Meme stock mania.
- A 40-year high inflation rate of 9%.
- Russia invading Ukraine.
- $140/barrel oil prices.
- The Fed hiking rates 75 basis points in back-to-back meetings.
- Short-term bond yields go from 0% to 5%.
- An inverted yield curve.
- Silicon Valley Bank crisis.
- The 2022 bear market.
- The worst bond market crash in history.
- One of the worst years ever for a 60/40 portfolio.
- Mortgage rates go from 3% to 8%.
- Everyone predicting a commercial real estate crisis.
- Evergrande/China real estate crisis.
- Government shutdowns.
- Debt ceiling stand-offs.
- U.S. credit rating downgrade.
- The Yen carry-trade unwind.
- Liberation Day tariffs.
- The Iran War.
- Oil/gas prices spike (again).
- 30-year Treasury yields move to the highest levels since 2007.
- Recession predictions every single year.
- Stagflation fears.
- 73 crash predictions from Robert Kiyosaki.
- 19 Michael Burry top calls.
- 10 straight years of worrying about stock market concentration.
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/08/making-it-to-new-all-time-highs/
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