This investing legend has been predicting surprises for the last 37 years. Here’s how he did last year — and what he’s predicting now

While the brace person published their database of 2022 surprises, it mightiness beryllium much informative to reappraisal past year’s surprises.

• “Former President Trump starts his ain tv web and besides plans his 2024 campaign.” He surely seems to beryllium gearing up for a 2024 run. As for the TV network, there’s nary successful beingness arsenic yet, though the Trump Media & Technology Group has been formed connected insubstantial astatine least, hired Rep. Devin Nunes to beryllium its main executive, and has agreed to beryllium acquired by special-purpose acquisition institution Digital World Acquisition Company DWAC, +0.52%.
• “Despite the hostile rhetoric from some sides during the U.S. statesmanlike campaign, President Biden begins to reconstruct a constructive diplomatic and commercialized narration with China. China A shares SHCOMP, -0.20% pb emerging markets higher.” The diplomatic mending is inactive successful its infancy, though what Wien and Zidle didn’t look to relationship for was China derailing its ain banal marketplace with assertive regulation.
• “The occurrence of betwixt 5 and 10 vaccines, unneurotic with an betterment successful therapeutics, allows the U.S. to instrumentality to immoderate signifier of ‘normal’ by Memorial Day 2021.” Mostly correct, adjacent if immoderate of the details, similar spectators astatine the Olympics, didn’t materialize.
• “The Justice Department softens its lawsuit against Google GOOGL, +0.10% and Facebook FB, +0.65%, persuaded by the statement that the user really benefits from the services provided by these companies.” No motion of that, and galore expect tougher enactment by U.S. authorities this year.
• “The system develops momentum connected its ain due to the fact that of pent-up demand, and depressed hospitality and hose stocks go beardown performers.” Right connected the economy, mixed connected stocks — the JETS JETS, +3.22% exchange-traded fund, for instance, peaked successful March, portion leisure stocks PEJ, +0.92% enjoyed beardown gains but did underperform the S&P 500 SPX, +0.64%.
• “The Federal Reserve and the Treasury openly clasp Modern Monetary Theory arsenic their accommodative policies continue.” The emergence of ostentation stamped this inclination out.
• “Even arsenic vigor institution executives chopped estimates for semipermanent growth, near-term opportunities are increasing. The instrumentality to ‘normal’ increases some concern enactment and mobility, and the terms of West Texas Intermediate lipid rises to $65/bbl.” A bully telephone here, with WTI CL.1, +0.34% surging 55%.
• “The equity marketplace broadens out. Stocks beyond wellness attraction and exertion enactment successful the emergence successful prices.” Participate, yes, but the marketplace was inactive overwhelmingly tech-focused.
• “The surge successful economical maturation causes the 10-year Treasury TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.647% output to emergence to 2%.” Directionally correct, though a half-point off.
• “The descent successful the dollar turns around.” It definite did, with the WSJ dollar scale BUXX, +0.17% jumping 5%.

They surely didn’t get 10 for ten. But successful all, the brace did good successful predicting the absorption of large assets, isolated from the Chinese banal market, and they whitethorn person been excessively aboriginal successful reasoning equity-market gains would broaden out.

Here’s their 2022 list.

• “The operation of beardown net clashes with rising involvement rates, resulting successful the S&P 500 making nary advancement successful 2022. Value outperforms growth. High volatility continues and determination is simply a correction that approaches, but does not exceed, 20%.
• While the prices of immoderate commodities decline, wages and rents proceed to emergence and the Consumer Price Index and different wide followed measures of ostentation summation by 4.5% for the year. Declines successful prices of proscription and vigor promote the die-hard proponents of the presumption that ostentation is “transitory,” but persistent ostentation becomes the ascendant theme.
• The enslaved marketplace begins to respond to rising ostentation and tapering by the Federal Reserve, and the output connected the 10-year Treasury rises to 2.75%. The Fed completes its tapering and raises rates 4 times successful 2022.
• In spite of the Omicron variant, radical meetings and normal gatherings instrumentality to pre-pandemic levels by the extremity of the year. While Covid remains a occupation passim some the developed and the less-developed world, mean conditions are mostly restored successful the US. People walk 3 to 4 a days a week successful offices and instrumentality to theaters, concerts, and sports arenas en masse.
• Chinese policymakers respond to caller turmoil successful the country’s spot markets by curbing speculative concern successful housing. As a result, determination is much superior from Chinese households that needs to beryllium invested. A large plus absorption manufacture begins to flourish successful China, creating opportunities for Western companies.
• The terms of golden rallies by 20% to a caller grounds high. Despite beardown maturation successful the US, investors question the perceived information and ostentation hedge of golden amidst rising prices and volatility. Gold reclaims its rubric arsenic a haven for recently minted billionaires, adjacent arsenic cryptocurrencies proceed to summation marketplace share.
• While the large oil-producing countries reason that precocious lipid prices are speeding up the implementation of alternate vigor programs and allowing US shale producers to go profitable again, these countries can’t summation accumulation capable to conscionable demand. The terms of West Texas crude confounds guardant curves and expert forecasts erstwhile it rises supra $100 per barrel.
• Suddenly, the atomic alternate for powerfulness procreation enters the arena. Enough information measures person been developed to trim fears astir its dangers, and the viability of atomic powerfulness is wide acknowledged. A large atomic tract is approved for improvement successful the Midwest of the United States. Fusion exertion emerges arsenic a imaginable aboriginal root of energy.
• ESG evolves beyond firm argumentation statements. Government agencies make and enforce caller regulatory standards that necessitate nationalist companies successful the US to people accusation documenting advancement connected assorted metrics deemed captious successful the caller era. Federal Reserve governors spearhead implementation of accent tests to measure fiscal institutions’ vulnerability to clime alteration scenarios.
• In a setback to its greenish vigor program, the United States finds it cannot bargain capable lithium batteries to powerfulness the electrical vehicles planned for production. China controls the lithium market, arsenic good arsenic the markets for the cobalt and nickel utilized successful making the transmission rods, and it opts to reserve astir of the proviso of these commodities for home use.”