Predict the Future

I keep hearing everyone saying how they knew all along how this was going to happen, that was going to happen, they predicted this and that etc etc.

You think you can predict the future? Go ahead. Tell me, in 1 year:

1. Who is president
2. Where is the S&P 500 (index level or % change from today) (S&P currently 1,288 for reference)
3. Where is the $/Eur (value or % appreciation/depreciation of DOLLAR vs today) (for reference it is about $1.57/Eur 1 today)
4. What is the price of a barrel of oil (% change or $ value, today it is pretty close to $110/barrel)
5. What is the price of an ounce of gold (% change or $ value, today it is about $1,000/ounce)
6. Have we attacked Iran? Yes/no.
7. How have civil liberties changed? Give some specific examples, no vague ranting.
8. What is the unemployment rate? Currently it is 4.8%.
9. What is the inflation rate? Currently CPI is around 4.3%
10. Will there have been another major terrorist attack against the US? Yes/no
11. Will China's economy still be booming? yes/no
12. Has a draft been implemented? Anti-war activists keep warning us about it. Will it have arrived yes/no.
13. Is there a NAU or an Amero?
14. Bonus question: fill in your own surprising prediction, whatever, cure for cancer/global plague/aliens arrive/ etc theory, but don't say it unless you mean it.
15. ***Late addition: Please provide GDP growth forecast for 2008. I think current forecasts are for about 1% in 2008. Keep in mind a depression means a contraction of at least 10%; the worst the US has seen was an 18% contraction in one year (1937-8) or a 33% contraction between 1929 and 1933.

No prizes for being right, because why would you need a prize? All you geniuses who "knew all along" that the dollar and the stock market were going down are already rich from your brilliantly timed investments.

Go for it, Nostradamus.



***15 added later! Please edit your responses if you have already answered. 15 is a very important forecast! Thanks

 

Now with tongue fully planted partially in cheek!

1. Who is president?
That would be GWBush aka Monkeyboy. He’ll declare martial law just before the elections and make himself President for Life.

2. Where is the S&P 500 (index level or % change from today) (S&P currently 1,288 for reference)
It’s going down and continue to set record lows.

3. Where is the $/Euro (value or % appreciation/depreciation of DOLLAR vs. today) (for reference it is about $1.57/Eur 1 today)
N/A since the dollar will no longer exist (see question 13)

4. What is the price of a barrel of oil (% change or $ value, today it is pretty close to $110/barrel)
The price will go up another 10 to 20 dollars before dollars are a thing of the past.

5. What is the price of an ounce of gold (% change or $ value, today it is about $1,000/ounce)
Once again you use dollars instead of Ameros but I’ll say $2,000/ounce

6. Have we attacked Iran? Yes/no.
No.

7. How have civil liberties changed? Give some specific examples, no vague ranting.
Well in the spring we all get our NIDs after that we’ll be hearing “papers please” a lot more and with the declaration of martial law civil liberties will pretty much a thing of the past.

8. What is the unemployment rate? Currently it is 4.8%.
You can double or triple that.

9. What is the inflation rate? Currently CPI is around 4.3%
Likewise double or triple it.

10. Will there have been another major terrorist attack against the US? Yes/no
No, they won’t need to unless Monkeyboy needs it to declare martial law.

11. Will China's economy still be booming? yes/no
Yes and will own most of the US.

12. Has a draft been implemented? Anti-war activists keep warning us about it. Will it have arrived yes/no?
Yes, mostly in an attempt to get the unemployed off the streets.

13. Is there a NAU or an Amero?
Yes.

14. Bonus question: fill in your own surprising prediction, whatever, cure for cancer/global plague/aliens arrive/ etc theory, but don't say it unless you mean it.
Next year about this time we will be in the middle of Armageddon!

15***Late addition: Please provide GDP growth forecast for 2008. I think current forecasts are for about 1% in 2008. Keep in mind a depression means a contraction of at least 10%; the worst the US has seen was an 18% contraction in one year (1937-8) or a 33% contraction between 1929 and 1933
If valued in dollars the GDP will increase 10,000% (actually a contraction of about 50% in real currency) because when China and the rest of the world begin dumping their dollars on the market, we'll be using a wheel barrow to carry our dollars to the store to buy a loaf of bread. The coming depression is going to make the 30s look like a cake walk!

Top That!

 

I am not going to predict when things will turn sour, but it's going to happen sooner or later, and most likely sooner, whether it's 1 year or 3 years from now. As I have been saying all along (and the uninformed mass media repeaters can call me a conspiracy theorist if they want), but this is being done DELIBERATELY. You don't think the FED knows they're destroying the dollar by flooding the market with more worthless fiat money, while continually cutting interest rates? Many of you don't even know who controls the FED, and you believe it's a government organization when it is in fact a PRIVATE CORPORATION not accountable to the American people or Congress. The FED was created by the international banking cartels to do EXACTLY what it's doing today, and that's to bring down the United States so it can be merged into a global fascist dictatorship. This is being done to wipe out the Middle Class, usher in the amalgamation of the Americas and standardized currency called the Amero, and to bring in a totalitarian form of government.

We know according to SPP documents that the NAU is to become a reality by 2010, by erasing the borders between the three countries and creating a common "North American" border. Don't think it will happen? Well, they can pull a lot of tricks out of their sleeves between now and then, and it's only a matter of creating the right crisis and people will gladly accept a world goverment. People will gladly accept a world government if their families are broke and without food, and are told the only solution is for a world government.

It was Mr. David Rockefeller himself who stated:

Or how about this quote from Henry Kissinger:

Think it sounds funny? Think it's a conspiracy theory? Well, just wait and see what happens. Those who know what's going on will agree with me. I get a little tired of some of you yuppies and know-it-alls who think you have all the answers because you have memorized what the talking heads on TV have told you. And I am not referring to anyone in particular, but those trolls who are so adament on telling us that everything is just fine and hunky dory. You need to wake up and get a clue, and fast!

 

you are the biggest know it all, pretty much all of your conspiracy theories are based on flawed evidence and are debunked yet you just won't listen to resonable facts, you attack the source and never the idea itself, you have a list that you just write off as being "government bs" or something along the lines of that without reading the information, you always think everyone is lying to you and try to make your own theories up to comfort yourself, by thinking that you know everything there is and that you have outsmarted the evil government and have figured out their evil plan, you just regurgitate what your side of the spectrum tells you, you don't make up any of these theories they are just fed to you

also, I am just wondering, could you tap into your vast stores of knowledge and tell me who the masterminds of the supposed NAU are? whos going to "rule the world" because I imagine that there would be some sort of power struggle... also, how does the NAU plan on taking over Russia and all the anti U.S countries to establish an new world order? or are they in on it too? I think the Russians would just destroy everyone with their nukes rather than be taken over...

 

You are a sheep. I don't waste my time arguing with sheep who lack the brain cells to think for themselves, m'kay? I am not going to try and argue with you or refute your personal attacks. Since you have been coming here (under this screen name and others), you have been trolling this forum, attacking people and contribuing NOTHING to the discussion. Either put up or shut up! Don't tell me my information is "flawed" unless you have your own information to bring to the table.

 

you are a sheep, thats great lol! you just regurgitate what other people tell you, what theories have you discovered yourself? what have you actually done or learned about their plans execpt for what other people feed you? whenever one of your theories don't pan out(your whole community does this) you just forget about it and make up a new one to stop people from remembering how nothing happened

 

I read books -- very old books by key players in the creation of this system. I don't go by what other people tell me. That's the problem with people like yourself. You listen only to what you're told instead of doing the research and thinking for yourself. Please, go back to drinking your fluoridated water and playing Xbox.

 

well which books do you read that are so amazingly enlightening

books by Jerome Corsi don't count

 

1. Barack Obama
2. I dunno what S&P is. Service and Produce?

3. Eur will be $1.35ish in a year. Perhaps a bit higher like $1.42
4. The $110 a barrel of oil sounds high to me, I didn't realize that it was that much, but I think it will be lower - $99 a barrel? (I thought it was lower than $80-$90)
5. Yeah, I think gold will continue to rise before it falls again for sure. I would guess at $1,400 per oz? Dunno.
6. No, we have not attacked Iran.
7. Civil Liberties, eh? Well nobody will be able to have as much mobility without a passport entering, leaving the USA and Canada in a year. Mmm, abortions still won't be legal for women without notifying their parents (PAH!) and any kind of standard legal procedure and protocol to ensure that women can safely have them in USA. Homosexuals will still not be able to marry in the USA. (There won't be enough democrat support to pass the bill)

8. Well, unemployment rate will be slightly higher - roughly 5.7% max? Dunno. I think it's slightly higher in Canada - and I don't see it changing much here.
9. Well, the inflation rate was stagnant these past two months in the USA. They are planning on cutting interest rates from what I hear, so I assume it's going to stay below 5% as least in the USA.
10. Mmmm. I'm going to say yes. Terrorists attacks happen every day in the world - but I don't believe there will be one on the same scale a 9-11 in the next year.
11. Yes. China is a upsurging alternative market (what do they call those? Seriously, what's the word I am looking for?) - and although they depend largely on industrial based markets they continue to produce cheap labour
and nobody is going to stop business with China because of human rights violation or lead contaminations in toys.
12. No draft. Bad timing for a war draft. There won't be one in the US or Canada.
13. No Amero, but increased awareness and talks about NAU with the failures and pitfalls of NAFTA. Politicians will flirt with the ideas of the NAU to push for reformations in the NAFTA in hopes to make it work more efficiently.
14. Stephen Harper's government will be overthrown, and there will be another federal election in Canada.

***15. The forecasts I have seen, the GDP will push to a close 2%. That's my prediction for a year from now. I think it could peak up, but by this time next year, I think it will be on its way down.

This is still fun. I like guessing!





That was fun!

 

s&p=standard and poors

many economists fear that china's economy is going to overheat from its rapid expansion, but who knows,(if they experienced rabid inflation then suffered a major economic downturn resulting from a possible us recession they would be destroyed)

 

Inflation rates in the US are around three times higher than what the government is telling us. According to some economists, such as Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster, inflation is really around 11%. But what's to be expected when all the government does is LIE. It amazes me people actually believe the inflation rate is only in the 3-4% range. It just shows how gullible and dumbed-down the American people are. They will believe virtually ANYTHING their media gods tell them. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about economics (not the well-paid shills on TV who serve only to deceive you) will tell you the inflation rate is considerably higher than what the US terrorist government is telling us. Whether it's as high as 11% or not, it's certainly damn well higher than 3-4%.

 

please provide your data, your version of the price index would be helpful

 

Um, when they cut interest rates, inflation INCREASES (not decreses).

Standard and Poor's.

 

well thats partly true, if people don't have much money to spend and you decrease interest rates they will spend more and energize the economy(in theory)=increase in aggregate demand, but if AD is already low the economy will still be able to expand and grow without any major problems from inflation, but if the AD=AS already and you drop interest rates it will cause a much larger increase in inflation(unless AS somehow increases at the same rate to meet AD)

so if people in the U.S are spending/borrowing less a moderate decrease in the overnight rate wouldnt always create bad inflation it will only stimulate the economy

 

You cannot "stimulate" the economy if you are destroying the currency. This is common sense. Americans are not making any more money than they were, and that money is worth less and less each time interest rates are cut. This creates higher and higher prices. Why do you think oil is $110 a barrel?

 

Ugh. I was always under the impression that cutting interest rates (slashing them drastically) would bring inflation down. But those are the mysteries of economics.

And as far I know (which is pretty much fuck all about economics) that's how it works. Now I'm just confused.

 

That's not how it works. That's why the dollar is tanking (listen to Ron Paul address Fed Chairman Bernanke) -- because they are creating artificially low interest rates as they flood the market with more and more money. As they cut interest rates and flood the market with more dollars, that dollar is going to be worth less.

 

it will create higher prices is if the economy is at PO and aggregate demand is increased/encouraged by lower interest rates which will result in AD>AS, and when demand is higher than supply, prices are increased(inflation), and when prices are increased the suppliers will be willing to supply more of their service or product, which should bring the economy back to mPO, oil may be higher, but the real amount of debt americans have is being reduced by the lower interest rate, car payments, home loans, credit cards ect, the economy always floats back to PO the only purpose of montary or fiscal policy is to smooth out the bumps

and the lower dollar has resulted in less imports, and more exports, which represents an injection into the U.S economy, also people are not traveling /spending their money in foreign countries now, and more people(canadians) are coming to the U.S to spend there money there which again bolsters the economy

 

I get that dear, I know that and it makes sense to me what Paul says. But it still helps to bring inflation down. It's a bandaid, but it still brings inflation down.

 

If this is what you believe, then there is absolutely no point in trying to get through to you.

You are pretty much using the same logic George Bush uses, and even repeating many of the things he has said verbatim.