Predictions for 2018

Guest Post by Rob in Nova Scotia

The Stones at Callanish, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” –Nils Bohr

So let’s get down to the nitty gritty of my predictions for 2018.

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Debt

• What is a couple hundred billion between friends. Governments are broke everywhere, can’t balance the books, and solution is to write even moar cheques. But seeing as folks need a number here it is. 22.6 Trillion, though it hardly matters what the digits are on the roads of infinity.
• The CPI is bullshit! I bought a hamburger at A&W during the Festivus season and it cost me 6 bucks without the drink and fries.. That number will be whatever the Fed Chairman/woman pulls out of their ass.
• As for interest rates they are right now in a fight to the death with the long end of curve. They will rise 25 basis points and das ist alles. They should rise moar but if they did it would crush bond prices and the FED portfolio. Besides the Fed has found a better ways to mooch. These days they screw Granny out of interest on GIC’s.
• Oil prices will be up and down like a whores drawers on Bourbon Street. But they will go up. Even with Saudi Arabia waterboarding Billionaires it still broke. They will to fix their holes in budget, eliminating competition one way or the other and thereby raising the price. Predicktion some flux and $65 dollars at end of year.
• As for store closings, bankruptcy filings in the retail sector are sure to increase. How many? Does it even matter anymore. The Malls too are going to have another shitty year though analysts should know by now that it is in best interests of everyone to roll over their debt despite negative cash flow. In this world of Dire Straits the song being played anyways is Money for nuthin’ and the chicks are free.
• Spending is going to go through the roof and personal debt into the stratosphere. And why the fuck not! When yer drunk ya might as well dance. Besides, it is two o’clock in the morning, the beer goggles are on, and there are no ugly girls! Even a pig will do..
• Jobs are hypothetical. If you want one then the Government will think you have it.
• The DOW is going to go up again this year. Around 10% but only because Trump and Wall Street now realize that they have no choice but see eye to eye. To anyone with clue about balance sheets it does not add up but these days reality and common sense have blinded by eyes that no longer see.

Civic Decay

• Relations between the U.S. and Russia are going to deteriorate. With recent moves to provide the Ukes with more weapons it seems likely that moves are a foot. Count on some sort of provocation while World Cup is underway in Moscow.
• Obama will continue to poke sticks in the eyes of Trump and his supporters by dispensing with tradition and involving himself in the fuckery of the election season.. Sure it will inflame but he is a one trick pony with an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore. In other news water is wet.
• Trump will do everything in his power to investigate the Clinton foundation and still manage to not sent anyone to jail.
• Well-funded (by Soros) domestic agitators, including BLM and various femi-nazi groups are going to continue with the violence, conflicts with Trump supporters, and police confrontations. The divide, already a chasm, is going to just get deeper. Expect another fat lesbian with a bad heart to stumble at a parade and be turned into a martyr.
• The Mainstream media are going to double down on stupid. The blathering idiots will carry on shitting on white people and anyone productive. They have no choice.
• Count on Trump to continue using twatter as a flamethrower with CNN and MSNBC taking it in the ass and singled out for special measures. Lemon and Cooper will be sure to approve.
• There will be no beautiful wall. Though bits and ribbons will be cut in lead up to mid term elections. DACA will be passed in some form and the Muslim invasion will begin anew. Yojimbo will have mental health crisis of some sort once he fully realizes that Trump has sold his soul to the company store…
• Obama is going to refuse to fade into the sunset. Mike and Barry realizing that their legacy is fading will break with tradition and, using their combined experience, go balls deep into this coming election season.
• Through there will be some rumblings, ole Cankles Clinton will end the year free. Still signing books and lining up more targets for Bill to play with.
• Not so for Debbie Wasserman Shultz. She is headed to crowbar motel thanks to a deal cut by Sessions with the Arwan Brothers.
• Jullian Assange will be pardoned in March or April. Just in time the the next election silly season. Then count on many critters pleading the fifth at the inevitable congressional hearings.
• The Fusion GPS story line will linger then fade. Those behind will slink off to which they came and John McCain will avoid jail by doing everyone a favour and take a dirt nap.

Global Disorder

• There will be no war in Korea. Once Kim and Trump get done measuring their cocks they will get back to their desks and cigars.
• Syria is in the demarcation phase with hostilities subsiding somewhat. It might lead to some reprieve in migrant crisis but it will the short lived. Reason being that Israel needs a shitshow somewhere to distract their locals from the realities they face. Same ole, same ole. Watch Lebanon!
• Iran is going to teeter but it won’t break. The vast majority having seen the benefits of democracy in places like Libya, Egypt, Syria and Ukraine will say thanks but no thanks to your colour revolutions. And yeah you Yanks, colour is spelled right!
• The U.S. dependency on Saudi oil will continue. Not because of the oil in the ground but the paper castles in the sky. Tempers will flare and prices for oil will rise. In the end the only ones getting screwed will be at the pumps.
• Turkey should be in the Russian sphere of influence based on past U.S. meddling. But like the two timing whore that it is will continue playing both sides and hoping for the middle. Here’s hoping that country gets fucked from both ends..
• Israel will pre-emptively take action either covertly or overtly to damage the Iranian nuclear program. Cause that is what they do and in other news the sun came up today.
• As for relations between India and Pakistan expect more soldiers getting shot in border skirmishes though it won’t amount to much in the grand scheme. A few dead here and few bleeding there. Doesn’t make for any great mischief in a place where 1.5 billion people live.
• As for the financial turmoil in India.. meh! They worship cows while people starve in the streets. They may be late to the party but they ain’t pikers to the game.
• In Japan, that country has been wrote off as far as the smart people are concerned for years. They are going to continue to avoid catastrophe only because they are a homogeneous society that for the most part pull in the same direction. As for the population declines underway there nothing to see either. Yeah its going down but there are still more people living now then at the height of Imperial Japan. And back then they almost took over all of East Asia. Go long Japan..
• China will rumble on. Why because it is China and folks in the West need their shit.
• Things are going to cool off a bit with the potential military conflict between China and Japan/U.S. over the islands in the South China Sea. China will continue to build ’em and the US will continue to fly over them.
• The EU will remain in tact though the edges will continue to fray.
• Count on efforts by Globalists to bring a better democracy to Poland and Hungary.

Sports

• There will be continued declines in ratings for NFL as the overpaid continue pissing off the fans that feed them..
• Kapernick will work on his afro, practice “would you like fries with that” and still somehow not have a job.
• The Cleveland Browns will still suck.
• The Toronto Blue Jays will finish at bottom of American East.
• Mikhal Sergachev will be rookie of the year… dammit nkit, it is Denis Savard all over.
• and the Habs will finish out of playoffs… again.