“And when you make the direst predictions, you needlessly put your credibility on the line. The stock market didn’t go into free fall after Trump’s election. We’re not at war with North Korea. When you extrapolate too wildly into the future, you sometimes wind up distracting people from what’s happening in the here and now.”
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