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Your Journey to EPCOT | FourThought Q3 Economic Review 2025
In our Q3 2025 Economic Review, Scott Pinkerton and Jake Macfarlane explain how the One Big Beautiful Bill, new tariffs, and Washington’s fiscal policy are reshaping markets. They use an EPCOT planning metaphor to show why investors should look beyond U.S. stocks to...
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Our View: Inflation – Targets Can Shift Or Be Moved. Know How To Separate The News From Noise
Download Our Latest Whitepaper HERE If you recall from our Fourth Quarter Economic review, our topic was Stay on Target. At the end of the newsletter we stated, “Targets can shift or be moved” and “we need to know how to separate the news from the noise.” As we have...
4th Quarter Economic Review: Stay on Target & Beware of the Biases
Stay on Target - Beware of the Biases (To download a printable pdf of this white paper, click HERE). You remember the climax of the first Star Wars movie... Luke Skywalker is in his X Fighter, zooming on to a runway with the target that, if hit, will destroy...
The Heart of the Matter: Planning Holistically
Disco Inferno: Inflation Hot!
Disco Inferno - Inflation Hot! Are We Going Back to the 70's? (To download a printable pdf of this white paper, click HERE). Back in the 70's The last time the USA had crippling inflation was in the late 1970s when Managing Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer,...
Are We There Yet?
The Look of Recovery in a Post-Pandemic World (To download a printable pdf of this white paper, click HERE). Many of us have experienced it. You are driving to Florida and the kids can’t wait to see the Magic Kingdom. They have been marking the days on their...
Cash Flow Planning for Financial Freedom Investors
Here’s our latest video on cash flow planning.
The Growth of Video Gaming Could Be a Win for Investors
Few industries have benefited more from the COVID-19 pandemic than the videogame industry, or “gaming.” The pandemic has made gaming more profitable than the film industry and U.S. sports combined. The question remains: can this trend continue? In 2020, the global...
FourThought’s Fourcast Q1 2021
https://vimeo.com/511274618 Enjoy our short video with highlights of our economic analysis and commentary for the first quarter of 2021. For in-depth information download our free WHITEPAPER HERE.
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Coffee with FourThought [June 2025] Economic Update
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FourThought’s 10 Predictions For 2023
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Perseverance: Lessons from Hurricane Ian
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