On Predicting The Future

Way back when COVID-19 was just beginning to make its mark on the world, yours truly offered two somber blogs (one perhaps even bleak) on what the future looked like for the economy and, more specifically, the high risk/reward entrepreneurship and investing space (see This Too Shall Pass: Thoughts on High Risk/Reward Entrepreneurship in These Troubled Times - Venture Best, a part of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, and The View from the Foxhole - Venture Best, a part of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP ). A lot has happened since then, including millions of COVID-19 deaths, severe supply chain disruptions, massive layoffs, historic levels of drug overdose deaths, and a plague of disruptions in education for the nation's children and young adults.