📈It's Been a Year
So long 2022
2022 was our first full year writing The Weekly Upside and its been an awesome experience. We’re only here because of your support! I know we can sound a little like NPR or your local PBS station, constantly hectoring for shares, likes, and subscribes, but that’s just the game - it is the only way we grow!
Honestly, though, we do it because we know you read it and you tell us about it! While we know not every post hits the mark, we’d like to think that our batting average is still pretty good.
When we started this project, we never set out to educate or lecture. We figured there’s enough of that in the financial press to go around. Really, our goal is and remains to create entertaining content from financial news, and then hopefully something useful happens along the way.
We’ll be back in 2023 with piping hot takes and freshly baked memes (I think Ian has something cooking on Tesla, a favorite target).
For this week, let’s look at some of our most popular posts from 2022:
From May 20, 2022: interesting to re-read in light of the FTX crash
March 18, 2022: the Fed starts to raise interest rates
July 9, 2022: a visit to Personal Finance Island and how to manage debt
December 17, 2022: recent post on P/E ratios
May 27, 2022: Ian’s dispatch from the trading floor
Thanks again for reading and see you in 2023!
For Your Weekend
Dave Barry’s 2022 Year in Review by Dave Barry (Washington Post1
The best thing we can say about 2022 is: It could have been worse. For example, we could have had nuclear Armageddon. This briefly appeared to be a possibility, at least according to the president, who broke the news in October at (Why not?) a Democratic Party fundraiser at the home of a wealthy donor in New York City. That must have been an exciting event! One moment everybody’s standing around chewing hors d’oeuvres, and the next moment WHOA WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?
The next day, after the news media ran a bunch of scary headlines, the White House Office of Explaining What the President Actually Meant explained that the president wasn’t suggesting that we were facing Armageddon per se, but was merely, as is his wont, emitting words, one of which happened to be “Armageddon,” and everybody should just calm down. So we dodged a bullet there.
2022 Was the Year of the Metaverse—Until It Wasn’t by Justin Charity (The Ringer)
The word of the year, per the annual (and now semi-democratically awarded) designation from Oxford, is … “goblin mode.” Seriously? What happened to “metaverse,” the distant runner-up to “goblin mode” with less than one-tenth of the votes? As recently as August, I could’ve sworn we’d never hear the end of the metaverse, the buzzword encapsulating the potential for a deeply embodied internet with unprecedented connectivity and interoperability; essentially, virtual reality.
Chuckle
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