Normally I write articles about individual stocks, and the smaller the stock the better. The reason is because the less you try to have an opinion about, the more likely you are to have an opinion that can be both correct and significant. This article is a departure from that practice, talking about the biggest, broadest topics out there: interest rates, investment returns and the stock market.
Coming out of the Great Financial Crisis, central banks around the world reduced interest rates to zero in an effort to stimulate the world's economies. The plan was