Market leadership inevitably shifts over decades
The discussion highlighted that capitalism's creative destruction ensures that market-leading industries and companies completely change over multi-decade periods.
The argument
Faber pointed out that railroads dominated the US market in 1900 just as technology does today, and many top companies from previous decades (like Eastman Kodak or General Electric) have fallen from dominance or disappeared entirely.
The thesis, stress-tested
✓ What validates it
- ✓A non-technology sector or new company displacing current mega-cap tech leaders in the top index spots over the next decade
▸ Risks discussed
- ▸Passive indexing can expose investors to dying industries before rebalancing occurs
Hear it yourself
"it's you know, it just goes up to all more than all the grains of of rice and not just our world, but the universe by the time you get to the end of it. And so the thing that people rarely grasp is even though the return is 9%, it's not even a double digit return over that full period, compounded over two hundred years. And we should have been even more fantastical and started with, like, $10 or a $100 instead of one. But even then, we would say it turns into 2,000,000,000 or something, 20,000,000,000. But it's just a long runway."
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