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  Investment History Episode 21: Turning Investment History Into a Practical Portfolio, How Can Market Cycles Become Investment Standards? The reason investors study investment history is not to memorize as many past events as possible. The reason we examine the Great Depression, postwar growth, stagflation, the dot-com bubble, the global financial crisis, quantitative easing, the pandemic crash, and the artificial intelligence rally is to make today’s investment decisions stronger. Markets show us crises and opportunities under different names every time, but the structures that repeat inside them are often more similar than they appear. In some periods, falling interest rates allow growth stocks to lead the market. In other periods, inflation and rising rates bring cash flow, dividends, and real assets back into focus. In some periods, new technology appears to change the future, while in other periods, those expectations are priced into stocks too quickly and create risk for inv...