Business/Economy
1) The last half of 2008 will be declared a recession and it will continue through the first quarter. We will have little growth in the 2nd and 3rd quarter, modest growth in the 4th quarter.
2) The Dow will finish at 11,500 on the last trading day of 2009, which will be Thursday, December 31st.
3) Dollar at the end of 2009 will equal € 1.32
4) Unemployment will peak in early fall.
5) Oil will be at $40 ppb on 12/31/09
Sports
1) The Giants and the Steelers will play in the Super Bowl and the Giants will win.
2) UNC, UConn, Pittsburgh, and Texas will be in the 2009 Final Four - UNC will defeat Pittsburgh for the Championship.
3) NBA - Shaq will retire after the season. The Rockets will defeat the Celtics 4-2 to win the championship.
4) NHL - Red Wings over the Hurricanes 4-0.
5) MLB - Boston over the NY Mets 4-3.
6) Danica Patrick will leave IRL for NASCAR, Jimmy Johnson will lose the points race to Jeff Gordon.
7) BCS #1 and #2 December 2009 - Florida and Ohio State. Pete Carrol and Mack Brown leave for the NFL after the college season of 2009.
Entertainment
1) Jolie and Pitt marry by 12/31/09.
2) Spears and Lohan will stay out of jail in 2009, 'Circus' will be a commercial success, but critical failure.
3) AnnaLynne McCord will be the 'it' girl by the end of 2009
4) After nudes of Blake Lively hit the internet, Blake will be fired from the Gossip Girls.
5) Amy Whinehouse will O.D.
Politics
1) Obama will be at 45% approval on 12/31/09
2) Congress will be at 30%
3) A republican will be elected governor of Virginia - how is that for bold!
4) Bloomberg will lose in NYC.
5) Palin will announce her intentions for 2012 by 12/31/08.
6) Romney will drop out of the 2012 race.
7) Rudy will announce he will run for the open US Senate in New York.
World:
Depending on the severity of the following, my previous predictions may not be applicable.
1) Israel and Iran/Hezbollah will be at war by March. 2) Russia will invade the Ukraine in July. 3) Major Terrorist attack in the United States. 4) There will be an attempt on the life of a major world leader. 5) Bin Laden's fate unknown 12/31/09 5) Bibi will be elected PM of Israel
Ave atque vale: Margaret Thatcher, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Swayze, and Robert Novak
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Homeless all get homes no later than Jan 21st 2009.
MSM will report that the the economy is stronger than it’s been in 8 years- on Jan 30th, 2009.
Gitmo gets made larger in 2009.
AIDs resurfaces as major epidemic in 2009.
Biden asks Obama and Ted Kennedy to go for a drive. Teddy drives.
OBamBam with the aide of the Rat congress critters will be well on their way to destroying the US economy in 2009.
The Dow will conitnue to fall as the Obama economy really kicks in.
There will be a major terrorist attack in the US (at least one) and OBamBam will use that as an excuse to take away more of our freedoms — more goobermint, perhaps Martial Law, an excuse to raise taxes.
Oh that's cheap.
Pony up and guess whether there will be a fatal OD or not.
Barack (not Hussien) Obama will be named Time Magazine’s 2008 Person of the year. Ok, so I’m not going out on the limb much with that one.
I predict 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 are going to be VERY long years.
Lets make the Compean & Ramos prediction true.
Please everyone contact President Bush and plead for the release of these two guys. Lets bring them home for Christmas. I know many think its a waste of time, but there is strength in numbers.
comments@whitehouse.gov
202-456-1111
My prediction: The Red Sox will win the World Series...regardless of who they play.
July 4th will be celebrated as "Interdependence Day", a day for Americans to remember that "we're all in this together", encouraging us to unite behind the Government in support of the high-profile prosecutions above-mentioned.
FR will go "down" more and more frequently. One day it just won't come back up. There will not be a Third Quarter Freepathon, not for lack of supporters or funds, but for lack of a destination for donations.
Your predictions regarding the economy are very optimistic; I hope you are right in view of: after the 1929 crash, the Dow Jones low wasn’t reached until 1933 and the 1929 DJ high wasn’t reached again until 25 years later. We had a Democrat New Dealer during most of that period as well, you may recall.
You may also recall that a relatively untested liberal guy became President in 1977 with 61 Democrats in the senate and a 67% majority in the house but, the economy went “to hell in a handbasket.”
lol, remind me to never, ever take gambling or investment advice from you.
Technically, you were correct about ‘no recession’
A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative change to the GDP. By the end of 2008, we will have only one such quarter (a second one is likely).
Obama will disband local police in favor of his own hand picked Obama squads, declare himself the first US Emporer after a generated crisis, create a giant super space station that shoots a massive laser beam, and disband the senate giving control the the regional governors.
PREDICTIONS FOR 2009
Perdogg gets 4 right
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