The CUK doom/gloom/happiness/financial prediction thread

[SantaClaus]

Let's start a thread with future predictions and then revisit at a later date to see who got it right/wrong.

I'll start by predicting that Gold falls to around $680.

[PM-Junkie]

I predict sas and cybertory's love affair will deepen, they will get married now that it's legal, and then emigrate to California to live happily ever after.

[foritisme]

I predict a Riot

[sasguru]

I predict that due to homo sapiens innate, evolutionary and biological propensity to see patterns where none exist, that short term prediction of the markets is essentially useless.
Money will continue to be made and lost by luck.
Those who make it will post-hoc rationalise that it was due to their superior intelligence and insight.
Those who lose it will try to find a better "system".

Both are deluded.

[Fred Bloggs]

FTSE100 will be >5000 by March 31st 2010.

[ace00]

Let's start a thread with future predictions and then revisit at a later date to see who got it right/wrong.

I'll start by predicting that Gold falls to around $680.

I predict it will rise to $2000

[AlfredJPruffock]

Our entire Solar System ,including the Earth and Sun - will be destroyed in 3 Billions Years following the collision with the Andromeda Galaxy rendering any rememberance of your puny existence in the Cosmos to be utterly meaningless.

The Future is - Starless and Bible-Black.

[gingerjedi]

I predict that due to homo sapiens innate, evolutionary and biological propensity to see patterns where none exist, that short term prediction of the markets is essentially useless.
Money will continue to be made and lost by luck.
Those who make it will post-hoc rationalise that it was due to their superior intelligence and insight.
Those who lose it will try to find a better "system".

Both are deluded.

The same could be said for climate change... or is that different?

[dang65]

Let's start a thread with future predictions and then revisit at a later date to see who got it right/wrong.

If my predictions turn out to be right though, there won't be any revisiting at a later date.

[gingerjedi]

If my predictions turn out to be right though, there won't be any revisiting at a later date.

So either no-one will read it or you'll get laughed at.