hindsight

In hindsight she realized she ought to have checked the almanac for the date of the next full moon, so she might be prepared to begin the HEP, as promised.

“But I fear such judgments can only be made with the gift of hindsight.”

What the report’s authors do acknowledge, though, is that “peak valuations are negative for equity returns going forwards and… with hindsight, it is true market peaks generally coincide with peak valuations.”

Investors with a long-term perspective pounced on what in hindsight were solid, boring bargains near the bottom.

In Scipio’s advance on Carthage there would be no elephants, dramatic mountain crossings or, it appears in hindsight, uncertainty.