Pleased New 12 months!  Kick it off proper with our first day of the yr reads:

• Every thing Wall Avenue Obtained Flawed in 2023: Shares have been purported to stoop and bonds rally because the Fed drove the US right into a recession. It didn’t play out as strategists anticipated. (Bloomberg)

• Crypto Animal Spirits Are Again. What’s Forward for 2024. Bitcoin backers are wanting ahead to an ETF and different catalysts that would elevate costs in 2024. (Barron’s) see additionally Shares Beat the Odds This 12 months. Why They Can Do It Once more in 2024. They could have a bumpy begin to the brand new yr, however shares ought to end stronger as rates of interest fall. Keep invested. (Barron’s)

• Ten Financial Questions for 2024: The aim of those questions is to offer a framework of how the U.S. economic system will doubtless carry out in 2024, and if there are surprises – like in 2020 with the pandemic – to regulate my pondering. (Calculated Threat) see additionally It’s okay to be optimistic concerning the economic system subsequent yr: A recession didn’t are available in 2023 and it may not in 2024, both. (Vox)

• Extra Than Phrases: 10 Charts That Outlined 2023: Some years are outlined by a single occasion or particular person — a pandemic, a recession, an revolt — whereas others are buffeted by a sequence of disparate forces. Such was 2023. (New York Instances)

• The Final Train Column You Ever Have to Learn: This previous yr at Slate, we explored train. Right here’s what we realized. (Slate)

• Do These 8 Issues Now for the Greatest 2024 Trip: Why the ready sport on reserving journey for subsequent yr might backfire. (Wall Avenue Journal)

• 13 Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2023: Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal among the yr’s most fascinating findings about human origins. (Smithsonian Journal) see additionally The 9 Breakthroughs of the 12 months: CRISPR, GLP1s, and different developments that astonished me. (The Atlantic)

• 20 Issues That Occurred for the First Time in 2023: A sequence of unusual and critical occasions and tendencies that have been unprecedented till now. (New York Instances)

• 52 issues I realized in 2023: Listed below are among the most attention-grabbing issues I realized this yr: (Ken Thendricks) see additionally 81 Issues That Blew Our Minds in 2023: The place The Atlantic’s Science, Expertise, and Well being reporters discovered surprise this yr. (The Atlantic) see additionally The 84 Sentences That Clarify 2023 In a yr as bizarre as this one, the one method to recap it’s to interrupt it right down to its molecular stage. (The Ringer)

• Six N.F.L. Gamers Present Soccer’s Grind on Their Ft and Fingers: Over the course of the lengthy and brutal N.F.L. season, gamers’ ft and palms take a beating on practically each snap. Fingers are jammed, toes are stepped on, ankles are twisted, nails are damaged. (New York Instances)

Make sure you try our Masters in Enterprise this weekend with Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, which manages $1.5 trillion greenback in shopper property. She has labored at FT since 1988, and held management roles in funding administration, distribution, know-how, operations, and high-net-worth purchasers. Franklin Templeton oversees greater than 9000 staff and 1300 funding professionals. Johnson is on the record of strongest girls (Barron’s, Forbes, American Banker, and extra). She has been CEO February 2020.

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Gentle posting over the following few weeks as I’m nonetheless on trip/e-book depart — again January 15!