2024: Dire Predictions & Reasons to Hope

The media is peddling fear again.

This time it’s the prospect of 2024 bringing a black swan event to rock our world. Economists have adopted the term to describe unexpected, and catastrophic events. A black swan is rare outside of captivity so the black swan event — the term was popularized by a finance professor named Nassim Nicholas Taleb in a 2007 bo…