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Author:  Dignified Rube [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 4:55 pm ]
Post subject:  2018 Predictions

Gaze into the crystal ball and what do you see?

Mine is gold prices will climb to at least $1,800/oz. by year-end, thanks to the egregious U.S. tax cut legislation favoring global corporations and the top 1%. The dollar has been getting hammered. In the last twelve months the dollar index is down 13%! It's not good when a former Treasury Secretary, Lew, comes out today and says the U.S. debt situation is a "ticking time bomb" because of the tax cuts, leaving the nation broke. If you exclude the effects from the dollar's depreciation last year, the stock market rise was not that remarkable in 2017, with the S&P rising about 5%. The gains have nothing to do with any Trump personality cult effect, and everything to do with currency depreciation. The government and the Fed know that the stock market bubble can only continue by depreciating the currency, and that's what's going on. But it's an unsustainable course, because interest rates will rise. The government cannot continue to spend trillions it doesn't have, nor can the Fed do another round of QE to artificially depress rates as they have done, not without disastrous consequences in terms of market confidence.

Gold prices are at a 3 month high today. Oil, too, is up. Maybe Ogie was right about oil after all, but not for the reasons he gave.

Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Good post.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Dignified Rube wrote:
Gaze into the crystal ball and what do you see?

Mine is gold prices will climb to at least $1,800/oz. by year-end, thanks to the egregious U.S. tax cut legislation favoring global corporations and the top 1%. The dollar has been getting hammered. In the last twelve months the dollar index is down 13%! It's not good when a former Treasury Secretary, Lew, comes out today and says the U.S. debt situation is a "ticking time bomb" because of the tax cuts, leaving the nation broke. If you exclude the effects from the dollar's depreciation last year, the stock market rise was not that remarkable in 2017, with the S&P rising about 5%. The gains have nothing to do with any Trump personality cult effect, and everything to do with currency depreciation. The government and the Fed know that the stock market bubble can only continue by depreciating the currency, and that's what's going on. But it's an unsustainable course, because interest rates will rise. The government cannot continue to spend trillions it doesn't have, nor can the Fed do another round of QE to artificially depress rates as they have done, not without disastrous consequences in terms of market confidence.

Gold prices are at a 3 month high today. Oil, too, is up. Maybe Ogie was right about oil after all, but not for the reasons he gave.



Buy Bitcoin!

Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Trump has a heart attack in June down in Mar-a-lago. Doesn't die.
New England wins the Superbowl.
Cubs win the World Series.
Major terrorist attack in April in LA.
Black Panther is awesome.
Ian McKellen dies in September.
Announcement that Back to the Future will be re-booted and take place in present day and time travel 30yrs back to the 80s. The new DeLorean will be a Tesla.

Author:  sjboyd0137 [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Hank Scorpio wrote:
Announcement that Back to the Future will be re-booted and take place in present day and time travel 30yrs back to the 80s. The new DeLorean will be a Tesla.


And Marty will be a tranny named Martina...

Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

sjboyd0137 wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
Announcement that Back to the Future will be re-booted and take place in present day and time travel 30yrs back to the 80s. The new DeLorean will be a Tesla.


And Marty will be a tranny named Martina...


Still a male Marty McFly but Doc Brown will be played by Melissa McCarthy or Kate McKinnon.

Author:  Caller Bob [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Cubs win 98 games and make it to the WS again(lose).

White Sox lose 90+ games again.

Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Hank Scorpio wrote:
sjboyd0137 wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
Announcement that Back to the Future will be re-booted and take place in present day and time travel 30yrs back to the 80s. The new DeLorean will be a Tesla.


And Marty will be a tranny named Martina...


Still a male Marty McFly but Doc Brown will be played by Melissa McCarthy or Kate McKinnon.

Sorry to spoil your erotic fam fiction fantasy but

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/back-to ... -zemeckis/

Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

rogers park bryan wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
sjboyd0137 wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
Announcement that Back to the Future will be re-booted and take place in present day and time travel 30yrs back to the 80s. The new DeLorean will be a Tesla.


And Marty will be a tranny named Martina...


Still a male Marty McFly but Doc Brown will be played by Melissa McCarthy or Kate McKinnon.

Sorry to spoil your erotic fam fiction fantasy but

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/back-to ... -zemeckis/


Robert Zemeckis dies in February.

Author:  rogers park bryan [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Ha!

Author:  312player [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Virginia McCaskey, Charlie Weiss die. Trump comes out clean in the Russia probe. Amazon delivers a package via drone.

Author:  donspiracy [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:15 pm ]
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I will be on TV.

Author:  Nas [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Something amazing will happen.

Author:  newper [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 6:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

The Pat Tomasulo show will suck.
Nobody cares that Hawk is leaving broadcasting.
jason88cubs makes good on his promise to stop posting.
Designing Women is considered for a reboot.
Trump takes credit for airplanes not crashing.
DiCaro and WSCR part ways.
HawaiiYou posts about Famous Amos cookies.
Cubs fans aren't as obnoxious as usual.
Joe Buck is implicated.
People are sick of iPhones.
Chimichurri sweeps over the nation.
Gerald McRaney again gets nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (but he doesn't win this time.)
Recyclable K-Cups become the norm.
Cardi B does the unthinkable.
Talk of a Back To The Future remake leaks, but public opinion is against it.

Author:  pittmike [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 7:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

I’m really surprised no one put the Mr. T gif predicting pain.

Author:  chaspoppcap [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 7:19 pm ]
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Rumor is Amazon is making plans on buying Target.

Author:  Chet Coppock's Fur Coat [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 7:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Local:
1. The Pat Tomasulo show will suck, but Sinclair will syndicate it to all 173 of their owned stations and he'll become a phenomenon among redneck wives waiting for the infomercials to start.
2. Cheryl Scott will have an abortion.
3. Brent Seabrook will be traded, but they'll have to include Crawford to convince somebody like Phoenix to take the contract.
4. Sammy Sosa will start identifying as Caucasian on government documents.
5. DaMaNaaa will end up doing pre/intermission/post for the Blackhawks next season.

Global:
1. Kim Jung Un will die before the end of the year. No prediction as to if he takes all of the Korean peninsula with him.
2. There will be a forest fire in California.
3. The Republicans will lose 60 seats in the House and 10 in the Senate
4. Brexit will be reversed, ostensibly to keep peace in Northern Ireland but really because it was a fucking stupid idea.

Author:  Drunk Squirrel [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 7:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

newper wrote:
The Pat Tomasulo show will suck.
Nobody cares that Hawk is leaving broadcasting.
jason88cubs makes good on his promise to stop posting.
Designing Women is considered for a reboot.
Trump takes credit for airplanes not crashing.
DiCaro and WSCR part ways.
HawaiiYou posts about Famous Amos cookies.
Cubs fans aren't as obnoxious as usual.
Joe Buck is implicated.
People are sick of iPhones.
Chimichurri sweeps over the nation.
Gerald McRaney again gets nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (but he doesn't win this time.)
Recyclable K-Cups become the norm.
Cardi B does the unthinkable.
Talk of a Back To The Future remake leaks, but public opinion is against it.



I hope you’re right on the chimmichuri.

Author:  tommy [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

--Barry Bonds pens Still an Asshole, his first volume of published poetry
--The SEC breaks away from the NCAA and becomes the NFL's minor leagues; as a result, hundreds of Coaching Strategies and Bowling II professors are let go
--Also, Vanderbilt moves to the B1G, offsetting the homely chicks at Indiana's B1G schools while enhancing the league's baseball fortunes at the same time
--Democratic Senators release a spoken word album entitled Bigger, Better, Blacker, More!
--Orrin Hatch dies during a premature autopsy
--pittmike brings back that squawking parrot meme
--Dr. Ken, RR, and JORR podcast from the Quad before the Illini-Penn State (futbol norteamericano) game
--Negan wins

Author:  GoldenJet [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Drunk Squirrel wrote:
newper wrote:
The Pat Tomasulo show will suck.
Nobody cares that Hawk is leaving broadcasting.
jason88cubs makes good on his promise to stop posting.
Designing Women is considered for a reboot.
Trump takes credit for airplanes not crashing.
DiCaro and WSCR part ways.
HawaiiYou posts about Famous Amos cookies.
Cubs fans aren't as obnoxious as usual.
Joe Buck is implicated.
People are sick of iPhones.
Chimichurri sweeps over the nation.
Gerald McRaney again gets nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (but he doesn't win this time.)
Recyclable K-Cups become the norm.
Cardi B does the unthinkable.
Talk of a Back To The Future remake leaks, but public opinion is against it.



I hope you’re right on the chimmichuri.


Best chimichuri is at Longitud315 in Highwood

Author:  Nas [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Republicans keep the House

Author:  Regular Reader [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

tommy wrote:
--Barry Bonds pens Still an Asshole, his first volume of published poetry
--The SEC breaks away from the NCAA and becomes the NFL's minor leagues; as a result, hundreds of Coaching Strategies and Bowling II professors are let go
--Also, Vanderbilt moves to the B1G, offsetting the homely chicks at Indiana's B1G schools while enhancing the league's baseball fortunes at the same time
--Democratic Senators release a spoken word album entitled Bigger, Better, Blacker, More!
--Orrin Hatch dies during a premature autopsy
--pittmike brings back that squawking parrot meme
--Dr. Ken, RR, and JORR podcast from the Quad before the Illini-Penn State (futbol norteamericano) game
--Negan wins


I'm in for that! I can promise it would be better than the ESPN multi casts

Author:  Regular Reader [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Nas wrote:
Republicans keep the House


I'll bet you a bottle of Mr. John Daniels on that one.

Author:  pittmike [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

tommy wrote:
--Barry Bonds pens Still an Asshole, his first volume of published poetry
--The SEC breaks away from the NCAA and becomes the NFL's minor leagues; as a result, hundreds of Coaching Strategies and Bowling II professors are let go
--Also, Vanderbilt moves to the B1G, offsetting the homely chicks at Indiana's B1G schools while enhancing the league's baseball fortunes at the same time
--Democratic Senators release a spoken word album entitled Bigger, Better, Blacker, More!
--Orrin Hatch dies during a premature autopsy
--pittmike brings back that squawking parrot meme
--Dr. Ken, RR, and JORR podcast from the Quad before the Illini-Penn State (futbol norteamericano) game
--Negan wins


:lol:

Author:  Nas [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
Republicans keep the House


I'll bet you a bottle of Mr. John Daniels on that one.


You got it

Author:  Regular Reader [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Nas wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
Republicans keep the House


I'll bet you a bottle of Mr. John Daniels on that one.


You got it


I'm sorry but when I win, I want a bottle of Barbancourt rhum. It's about the same price at Kenwood. And I expect to share it with you in celebration.

Author:  Nas [ Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
Republicans keep the House


I'll bet you a bottle of Mr. John Daniels on that one.


You got it


I'm sorry but when I win, I want a bottle of Barbancourt rhum. It's about the same price at Kenwood. And I expect to share it with you in celebration.


:lol: :lol: Sounds like a plan.

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 8:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Caller Bob wrote:
Cubs win 98 games and make it to the WS again(lose).

White Sox lose 90+ games again.
0-3. Good to see you are picking up right where you left off in 2017.

Author:  Walt Williams Neck [ Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 2018 Predictions

Dan Bernstein will be fired for harassment charges....start his own podcast ( they all do ) wind up selling Chevy Suburbans' for Grossingers ( they all do )

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