Summary of Howard Marks's Mastering the Market Cycle

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Everything in life comes and goes in perpetual cycles. The economy is no different. In Mastering the Market Cycle (2018), top investor Howard Marks explains the market cycle, why it happens, and how intelligent investors can harness it to their advantage.

Market cycles follow the natural order of cause and consequence, swinging like a pendulum: the economy is good, people get overconfident and make risky bets, things go wrong, the economy suffers, it is slowly rebuilt, and so on. By identifying what part of the cycle a market is in, investors can learn to position themselves favorably and maximize profit.