At our 2017 Holiday Breakfast, Matt Wilson and I gave a presentation to our clients, families, and friends that analyzed the state of the economy at the end of a record year and attempted some predictions for where we could be headed in 2018.

So, halfway through the year, how’d we do?

At the risk of jinxing it, I’d say pretty good!

My Keen Wealth team expected some market volatility heading into the new year, but we felt that solid economic growth would help prevent a major downturn. And that’s pretty much where we’re sitting in July of 2018, although the current flat markets and our ongoing political dramas do have some investors nervous.

On today’s show, we talk about what happened in the first six months of the year and try to anticipate how those events and trends might be setting us up for the second half of 2018.