Thread: 2010 Predictions

Stronger dollar, stronger economy, stronger stock market. Iran eats a MOAB. The students will depose the Mullahs after they kill a few of them.

It would be boring to be safe, so here are some safe bets and an outlier or two:

A MUCH stronger dollar

Very little overall move in equities.

Gold will tank till Iran collapses, then rebound a little.

Flat economy - we have reached the zenith of the Obama Economic Miracle

Iran will collapse, the Mullahs will vanish into history, and the country will fracture

DEFLATION - hopefully managed and not spiral. Federal, State, and city tax receipts will fall further. Gubmint will be forced to shrink after an ill-conceived attempt at revenue enhancement. Our problems will be minor compared to that of Europe, Japan, and China.

I predit I will be number 1 on the tracker, quit smoking again, swim the English channel , win the lottery...

- Warren Buffett will buy a company
- Global Warming / Climate Change will be renamed Earth Preservation
- The Chargers will win the Super Bowl (I'm not a fan)
- The Nobel peace prize will be won by a liberal
- A Tea Party candidate will be elected to congress
- Taxes will go up
- Google will take over the world

>50%'s not bad, Tom. Will you settle for that?

Mine: -Many more mortgages will go into default.
-Trade deficit will get smaller.
-We will still be in Afghanistan a year from now.
-One or more states will go bankrupt.
-Birch will be retired and happy playing with his swing trading.
-Silverbird will have another DIY home improvement project
-Squalebear will have a small startup computer repair business
in the garage and his little cutie will be toddling around
winning hearts and minds.

Predictions:

After one more year in Afghanistan, we'll be no closer to a solution to the problem, but we'll pretend that it's over and pull out gradually.

The Mullahs will still be in power in Iran, whether conservative or liberal. My guess is the current group will find one that's palatable, and he'll open up to the west a bit more.

Countries will gradually recognize some of the effects of global warming, but nothing will be done.

Newer groups will come into the globalization fray that we haven't seen before. International security will start becoming more of a developing world issue, and not wholly our own.

Central America will become much less stable than before. Resurgence of democratic groups in the region will prove challenging to US security.

Increasing development in alternate energy leads to major technical breakthrough and decreasing dependence on oil as an energy source. Wishful thinking.....maybe.

China and India's economies will continue to develop at breakneck speed.

The EU will develop some fissures, particularly between Germany and France, with the Germans looking for trade possibilities with Russia, and the French, more with the rest of the world.

Countries will continually ask for US assistance to combat purely internal problems, labelling the issue "international terrorism". Increasing involvement in this problem by upcoming nations looking to expand their sphere of influence.

-All of Europe finally united
-Gold drop and then massive increase
-Ford stock @ $27.00 by fall
-Israel attacks iran
-People openly chant "Palin 2012"
-New Pope
-Dollar crash
-Oct 2008 TSP repeat
-Vikings win the superbowl
-Gas at pump over $3.00
-Tiger Woods plays golf
-Healthcare passes
-Credit card issues far worse
-Migratory flying penguins invade coastal Texas

dude your 2009 list is spot on, those things are already happening, now post your 2010 list, tell us what you really think, no hedging.

Originally Posted by tsptalk

Google will take over the world

With Walmarts help of course

me, i'm going with the lotto, stop smoking, tracker success thing too, but if i end up swimming the channel then something went seriously wrong with my boat.

Originally Posted by tsptalk

- Warren Buffett will buy a company
- Global Warming / Climate Change will be renamed Earth Preservation (Don't give them any ideas!)
- The Chargers will win the Super Bowl (Please, by the grace of God!)
- The Nobel peace prize will be won by a liberal (Whoopty do)
- A Tea Party candidate will be elected to congress (How about they take every seat up for grabs! THAT would really scare them!
- Taxes will go up (Big surprise)
- Google will take over the world (Only if they assassinate Bill Gates first)

-Tired of being labeled "Fat Cats," wealthy investors will intentionally crash the stock market in their own version of the "October surprise." The "dumb money" will be angry with the Congress and the President for the tanking economy and will install the Tea Party into the majority.

-On the one year anniversary of his death, the Jackson family will debut "This is REALLY it," a compilation of family videos featuring Michael Jackson rehearsing for his many concerts over the years.

-Chappaquiddick Island will be renamed Ted Kennedy Island in honor of the late Senator.

-ACORN will replace Halliburton as the contract provider of logistics and security for the Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. ACORN will also be named an official observer of the Iraq elections. Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboy Chearleaders will mysteriously be registered to vote in the Iraq elections.

-Obama's domestic policy will merge with his international policy when he presents his immigration reform legislation, which will make all human beings of the world United States Citizens and registered Democrats. Al Quaeda celebrates their newfound citizenship by crashing a White House party and blowing up the Lincoln Bedroom.

-Hillary Clinton will reveal that she too was Tiger Woods' lover. Bill will file for divorce.

-Eager to pay debts to China, and get rid of Sarah Palin, Obama sells Alaska back to Russia and offers to give California to China. China refuses to take the offer, saying they don't want liberal elites like Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer to screw up China like they did the U.S.

-Cubans will decide that things weren't as bad under Fidel than they are under Obama and will return to Cuba.