Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Predictions for 2025

 



It is notoriously difficult to predict the future, as evidenced by the fact that predictions of election results should not be taken as Gospel, even though people like Nate Silver often do better than other pollsters.

The best known “‘future predictor” during my lifetime was Jeanne Dixon. Among other things, she predicted the assassination of JFK. Like Nostradamus, she also had a lot of misses, including the fact that she predicted that Nixon would win in 1960.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Dixon

In the years since the publication of his Les Prophéties, Nostradamus has attracted many supporters, who, along with some of the popular press, credit him with having accurately predicted many major world events. 

Academic sources reject the notion that Nostradamus had any genuine supernatural prophetic abilities and maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are the result of (sometimes deliberate) misinterpretations or mistranslations.

These academics also argue that Nostradamus's predictions are characteristically vague, meaning they could be applied to virtually anything, and are useless for determining whether their author had any real prophetic powers.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus

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One of the newsletters I get occasionally is VOX, which just published its hit and misses about 2024.

The folks at Vox made 24 predictions about 2024, and they got it right 14 out of 24 times, for a winning percentage of .583.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/391440/2024-predictions-revisited-trump-politics-tech

I’m not smarter than anyone else but I will make a few predictions about what is likely to happen in 2025 and beyond:

1)    Donald Trump will not finish his first term in office. Either he’ll die in office, be removed by Congress, or thrown out by our military leaders, so we won’t have to tolerate him for 4 more years.

2)   Inflation and unemployment will rise

3)   The Kansas City Chiefs will win the Superbowl again, and possibly more than once

4)   The Democrats will regain both the House and the Senate

5)   Sales of electric vehicles will be 15% of all vehicle sales (up from 8.9% in 2024

6)   A new pope will be elected. (Pope Francis turned 88 years old in December. Since 2021, he has experienced a series of health issues.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis#Health

7)   Iran will experience a change in leadership

8)   Pierre Trudeau will no longer be the Prime Minister after November

9)   The U.S. government will nearly get shut down (again) but will be saved by a bipartisan agreement of Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans

10Cars made in China and sold in America will exceed 200,000

(Volvo, Buick, Lincoln, Polestar and Cadillac currently sell cars in America that are made in China)

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/americans-have-been-driving-these-chinese-built-cars-for-years-and-biden-s-tariffs-likely-won-t-impact-them/ss-BB1msjBS


Now that I have made MY predictions, what do YOU think will happen in 2005?


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