Grantham's 8 Unpleasant Facts for 2016 Investors

Americans have a “broad and heavy bias away from unpleasant data,” says renowned investor Jeremy Grantham in his latest quarterly report. For 2016, the head of the asset management firm GMO lays out eight areas where he believes Americans’ ignorance or denial of unpleasantness leads them to being manipulated by those who benefit from the problems—and blinds them to dangers in their investments.

Here are the eight areas where Grantham believes pleasant myths crowd out unpleasant realities: