It has been an interesting few months on the currency markets and the prospect of a Trump presidency is having its own effect on the markets. Our resident expert Filipe looks at the prospects of the pound below and discusses why he believes that the doomsayers and economists are going too far in their apocalyptic speculation.
Economists and analysts have always been a gloomy bunch. Every time the economy improves, they are slow to show support; and every time things go wrong, they make them appear even worse by predicting severe crises and financial crashes. Investors, as a group, are even worse, as they move together in hysterical 'herds' which amplify economists' and analysts' predictions. But I am not in a position to blame either, mainly for two reasons.
First of all, the human mind suffers from quite a few cognitive biases, which include the availability heuristic and the availability cascade. In short, we continually overestimate the likelihood of something happening when it is closer to hand and we quickly turn such an ill-formed belief into collective wisdom, which often ends in extreme market movements and, sometimes, crashes. Second, you know the saying "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones"? Well, I'm a part-time economist, part-time investor so… you get the picture…
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