prescient

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Was it a prescient warning or a bunch of hot air?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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

As 2025 progressed, stock leadership changed, and a commitment to diversification and owning underappreciated names proved prescient.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 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

Virginia's posture toward assumption was now making his prophecy look prescient.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis