An extract from a recent article on Motley Fool titled “9 Financial Rules You Should Never Forget“-

2. Don’t try to predict the future.

A little more than a decade ago:

• Greece was strong.
• Russia was bankrupt.
• Oil cost $13 a barrel.
• AOL dominated the Internet.
• Smart economists thought the [US} government would pay off the national debt by 2009.
• Apple was a joke.
• General Motors was at an all-time high.
• Mark Zuckerberg was in middle school.
• Y2K was a major worry.
• Fortune named Enron one of America’s “most admired corporations.”