This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altager show. So, 2023 was kind of a sucky year. And I mean that in the most personal sense but also in a broad sense like okay

COVID 20 21 maybe 2022 we were just getting out of COVID. So what was 2023 all about?

And I'm going to talk about this in the context of how you can think about 2024 to improve your life.

And I feel like 2023, the world,

this is gonna sound a little weird, but the world was a little bit on pause.

Like we didn't really know which direction or what direction the world was going in.

Like on the one hand, geopolitically, it's just a train wreck out there like every scenario

like if you watch a movie about oh my gosh World War 3 is coming it might be a movie about

2023 like everything's going on in 2023 seems like a pre-cur like people were talking about the Bible and like this might be the end times like that's pretty scary because there's all this conflict in the Middle East and it's horrible

conflict. There's these proxy wars in Russia Ukraine. The entire world is looking at

what's going on and these sort of proxy wars that are happening around the world.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve was first they were panicking about inflation and

now it seems like everybody's panicking that there might be a recession.

I'll talk about that in a second.

You know, which is it?

Is it inflation or a recession or both, which is called stagflation?

Then we have everybody's nervous next year about

politics and the presidential election. I'm gonna make one prediction about

the presidential election. Hear me out. Everything you could possibly predict right now is not going to happen.

So I think 2024 is going to be totally unpredictable in a lot of ways. And right now, everyone's

going on TV, telling their predictions for the year

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