The book Ten Lessons for a Post-pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria offers a critique of our current situation, no less caused by our own domestic incompetence but more pressing and less known is the impact of China's emerging success during these times. The China Dragon is awakening and it's necessary to acknowledge this as an investor. It was only 40 years ago when the almost billion-member population were mostly farmers with bicycles and not the consumeristic and militaristic

From the ashes of the disastrous 2008 Financial Crisis derived the most predictable and technically glorious market success stories in history. Perfect in design when charted, the S&P 500 appreciated 405% from the 2009 low without notable volatility, other than the market correction in March of this year, which has since fully recovered. The S&P 500 returned so much largely due to its exposure to Apple, which accounts for 30% of its total return; the story is not over as its