>>So, the big question is: how many of those financial types (investors, market gurus) have heavy short positions on the market? That will be the big differentiator between fearmongers and real prophets.<<
This one is the spookiest considering the age of the prediction:
Igor Panarin
In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow FAPSI analysts, Panarin forecast the probable disintegration of the USA into six parts in 2010 (at the end of June – start of July 2010, as he specified on 10 December 2000
Spooky, yes, but of all the predictions up there, the least likely to happen. The US isn’t going to split anytime soon, certainly not a month from now.