prescient

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Lemssouguer made prescient trades ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic and the software industry selloff this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Andreessen’s prescient call foreshadowed 15 years of transformation and arguably trillions in value creation.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

One prescient call in 2023 from its “age of scarcity” predicted an era of cheap credit and commodities was ending and that so-called real assets and infrastructure would benefit.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

You wrote this very prescient article in the New York Times in 2017, “Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media.”

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

In retrospect, that statement seems prescient, but it merely reflected the mood already widespread among the young in Durham’s black community as America stood poised on the cusp of a new and turbulent decade.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson