[evilgenius]

I think that in 2021 both climate change and cyber security will become important. Climate change because it's already happening. Cyber security because threats that come from where you don't expect them are more scary. Right now, we are waiting for Trump's people to demonstrate, and threaten another physical location. What happens if they are up to doing something virtual?

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
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And also, to be honest, anyone but, say, Tesla fanbois, would freely admit that most of the current daily movement in TSLA is based on speculation vs. an investment time-frame, re fundamental developments to what Tesla is doing. So does BTC need to be any different?

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'I') think that in 2021 both climate change and cyber security will become important. Climate change because it's already happening. Cyber security because threats that come from where you don't expect them are more scary. Right now, we are waiting for Trump's people to demonstrate, and threaten another physical location. What happens if they are up to doing something virtual?

[evilgenius]

If they, meaning the weird sort of fantasy alliance of Russia and the US domestic terror threat, went after the treasury market, they could cause havoc. That would be a target that at once hearkened back to the days of the Soviet Union, raising such a capitalistic figure up to scrutiny, as well as addressed so many of the problems the far right have with the way the system works. The Fed is no friend of your average conspiracy theorist.

But I don't know if I actually predict that. There's is a lot besides that, and it isn't so well protected.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'I') think that in 2021 both climate change and cyber security will become important. Climate change because it's already happening. Cyber security because threats that come from where you don't expect them are more scary. Right now, we are waiting for Trump's people to demonstrate, and threaten another physical location. What happens if they are up to doing something virtual?

[evilgenius]

By the time Christmas comes around, anyone who has decided to go it alone, outside of the government's forgivable loan restrictions, will really be feeling it.

The markers could be touch and go, for some sectors. Hangers on, like JC Penny, may actually sink below the waves. Or, companies could become untethered from reality altogether, becoming believer's echospheres.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'B')y the time Christmas comes around, anyone who has decided to go it alone, outside of the government's forgivable loan restrictions, will really be feeling it.

The markers could be touch and go, for some sectors. Hangers on, like JC Penny, may actually sink below the waves. Or, companies could become untethered from reality altogether, becoming believer's echospheres.

[evilgenius]

I think the Fed won't keep interest rates as low as they are now. I think there will be at least one quarter point rate rise. In the meantime, the rate on the ten year will blow well past a quarter percent higher than it is right now. I don't know why, but the financial world will act like it wasn't prepared for that. There could be a spike downward, which would really be a buying opportunity.

[evilgenius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'B')y the time Christmas comes around, anyone who has decided to go it alone, outside of the government's forgivable loan restrictions, will really be feeling it.

The markers could be touch and go, for some sectors. Hangers on, like JC Penny, may actually sink below the waves. Or, companies could become untethered from reality altogether, becoming believer's echospheres.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'I') think the Fed won't keep interest rates as low as they are now. I think there will be at least one quarter point rate rise. In the meantime, the rate on the ten year will blow well past a quarter percent higher than it is right now. I don't know why, but the financial world will act like it wasn't prepared for that. There could be a spike downward, which would really be a buying opportunity.

[Outcast_Searcher]

BUMP, per careinke's request in the 2022 predictions forum.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'B')UMP, per careinke's request in the 2022 predictions forum.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'H')ave you ever seen a kid when they realize they've just done something bad? I get the feeling some republicans are feeling some vague sense of remorse and perhaps hoping for an excuse to get away from the poison they've been drinking and spoon feeding the gullible masses. I don't know for sure, and don't have much of a baseline since I never go there, but looking at Fox News site just now it reads like VOX or huffpost as the hypocrites scramble to distance themselves from the outrages they have been lining their pockets with for years. Probably a fleeting moment but I'll predict that some Rinos like Romney gain in power and the most outrageous like Hawley and Gommert (violence in the streets!) are sidelined.

[Shaved Monkey]

I predict BAU there will be no great pivot, the world will come slowly out of Covid with the milder Omega being a lot easier to live with, we will have had a few years to re-evaluate our lives and have made our New Years resolutions to be better but we will fall back into our old habits.
The environment gets worse,the economy is still a ponzi scheme,Chinas influence will continue to grow the US influence will continue to diminish,Fossil Fuels will still rule...life goes on