Last week we wrote a commentary entitled The Stock Market Is Not The Economy, demonstrating that attempting to time stock market investments based on economic data and the health of the economy has been perilous, at best. While the stock market has historically turned down prior to the peak in the economic cycle (with the one exception of the coronavirus recession), whether the stock market troughs before or after the trough in the economy, as well as the lead/lag times, has been completely random. This past week proved once again how fruitless closely tracking