25 Years of a Lesson Some Will Never Learn
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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Reflecting on 25 Years of Market Lessons in the Final Friday Dividend Cafe of 2025
In the final Friday Dividend Cafe of 2025, the speaker reflects on the major market events and financial lessons from the first 25 years of the new century and millennium. From the Y2K fears and dot-com bubble burst, through the 9/11 attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, this episode covers significant economic and geopolitical events that shaped the markets. The speaker emphasizes the normality of instability in markets and the importance of staying invested despite turbulent times. The primary takeaway is that long-term investment in profit-making enterprises, especially via dividend growth investing, has proven resilient and rewarding. The episode closes with an encouragement to appreciate the lessons learned and look forward to the future with a disciplined investment approach.
00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:15 Reflecting on the First 25 Years
02:51 The Dotcom Bubble and Y2K
09:58 9/11 and Market Reactions
14:19 The Financial Crisis of 2008
18:15 The Recovery Decade
20:33 The COVID-19 Pandemic
24:15 Lessons from 25 Years of Market Instability
31:20 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dividend Cafe, weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio |
| 0:06.5 | and dividends in your understanding of economic life. |
| 0:12.1 | Hello and welcome to the final Friday Dividend Cafe of 2025. |
| 0:19.4 | What a year it has been, and as you're about to see in today's Dividend Cafe, what a |
| 0:25.8 | quarter century it has been. We're going to look back at the first 25 years of this new century, |
| 0:34.5 | which I would also add is the first 25 years of this new millennium, and have a little |
| 0:40.6 | look at what these 25 years might be able to teach us as investors. What is, if there's only one, |
| 0:48.2 | what is the one major takeaway that investors ought to learn from these last 25 years. I had an awful lot of fun |
| 0:57.3 | writing it. This happens more often than I'm willing to admit, but I did think I was going to |
| 1:02.8 | sit down and write a 2,500 word dividend cafe, which is always my target. And I did end up writing closer to 5,000 words. So that is not because |
| 1:16.3 | I lacked discipline or brevity or self-editing. I'm sure all those things are true too. But in this |
| 1:24.4 | case, you really could not possibly do justice to the first 25 years of this new century in 2,500 words. |
| 1:33.1 | So it took a little longer to do it. |
| 1:36.0 | But let me not be guilty of the same here on the podcast, on the video. |
| 1:41.8 | The last 25 years happens to also be in addition to a nice calendar |
| 1:47.6 | coincidence to the beginning of this century, where a quarter of our way, quarter of the way |
| 1:52.5 | through this century, it also is the 25 years that make up the bulk of my adult life so far. |
| 2:00.6 | I was a young man. 25 years ago, |
| 2:03.3 | at least I think I was young. I was into my mid-20s and beginning into a career in wealth |
| 2:13.1 | management and professional financial services. Jolene and I were married in 2001. |
| 2:20.3 | So there's just a lot to reflect on, but this is not going to be biographical. |
| 2:25.1 | I gave you enough of that last week with my reflections on my late dad. |
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