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Optimistic, Pessimistic About 2024?
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Optimistic, Pessimistic About 2024?

Whatever happens, it's not inevitable

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Jim Buie
Jan 01, 2024
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Happy New Year!

I’ve spent a lot of time pondering whether 2024 will be an extraordinarily good year or an extraordinarily bad year. Whatever happens, I tend to believe it will be a historic turning point for the United States and possibly the world.

“The future is never inevitable,” historian Heather Cox Richardson observed in an interview with Judy Woo…

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