In 2023, the markets saw plenty of challenges: High interest rates, geopolitical conflict, debt ceiling brinksmanship, threat of a government shutdown, student loan payments restarting, a troubled commercial real estate market, record and rising national debt, and even a banking crisis. In the face of each of these shocks, the market seemed to take Taylor Swift’s lyrical advice and “shake it off.”

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