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With these insights, the speaker saw a clear pattern emerge: the economic forecasts of a recovery continued to be rooted in flawed assumptions that ignored the growing inequality. As a trader, this provided an opportunity to invest with confidence in the notion that the stagnation would persist.
The core realization—that the combined effects of wealth inequality would ultimately dictate the economy's trajectory—allowed the speaker to make increasingly successful predictions about financial markets, demonstrating a consistent pattern of divergence between asset prices and the cost of living.