2010/11predictions I might have been a little early but things are falling into place unfortunately
Bear
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1. World governments start to default on National Debt
2. USA defaults, in part, on National debt
3.Inflation begins to accelerate but continues to be hidden in part by Gov. Stats.
4. Rationing of gas begins, as Persian Gulf Oilpartially cut off
5. Gold and silver continue their rise but nothing spectacular yet.
6. 500 banks fail
7. Interest rates begin to rise raising
mortgage rates to 6.5%
8.Iran's Nuclear facilities bombed along with her
military facilities before summer 2010.
9. Rockets fly in the middle east.
10. VAT Tax in addition to Income Tax.
11. Limited draft for specific military specialties
as well as ground pounders to fill out new divisions.
12. Marine forces expanded , with formation of new division
13 Nation placed on Wartime Footing
14. Military formations sent to Africa, to combat Al- Qaeda terrorist
15. Coin prices continue at their tepid pace. Continuing shortage of premium quality coins.
16. The only good news is that there are a number
of deep salt mines fuzzy bears are able to hide in.
2. USA defaults, in part, on National debt
3.Inflation begins to accelerate but continues to be hidden in part by Gov. Stats.
4. Rationing of gas begins, as Persian Gulf Oilpartially cut off
5. Gold and silver continue their rise but nothing spectacular yet.
6. 500 banks fail
7. Interest rates begin to rise raising
mortgage rates to 6.5%
8.Iran's Nuclear facilities bombed along with her
military facilities before summer 2010.
9. Rockets fly in the middle east.
10. VAT Tax in addition to Income Tax.
11. Limited draft for specific military specialties
as well as ground pounders to fill out new divisions.
12. Marine forces expanded , with formation of new division
13 Nation placed on Wartime Footing
14. Military formations sent to Africa, to combat Al- Qaeda terrorist
15. Coin prices continue at their tepid pace. Continuing shortage of premium quality coins.
16. The only good news is that there are a number
of deep salt mines fuzzy bears are able to hide in.
There once was a place called
Camelot
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Fred, Las Vegas, NV
# 11 is notably absent from this list...........
You should be writing for hallmark.
<< <i>#11.: The Cubbies win the World Series!!!
The Lions will win the super bowl before that happens.
I knew it would happen.
I know that's not going out on a limb or anything, but what I've read indicates such.
peacockcoins
1. The sun will continue to rise
2.Plants will continue to grow.
3. People will still continue to smile
4. BBQ will still taste as good
5. Donutes will still be available in bulk.
6. Rivers, streams and lakes, in great measure,
will continue to exist.
7.Coins will continue to be an entertaining hobby.
8.Sunsets will continue to be a source of beauty
and wonderment
9.Gold will always gleam, day or night.
10. It will still be good to be alive.
11. I do not believe that the world will end on 12/21/2012.
Camelot
<< <i>You forgot to mention that the debunking of global warming costs Al Gore $100,000,000 causing him to become even more psychotic. >>
Pay him the $$$$ just to stop his poetry. I can't stand it.
However, the rate of the increase above and beyond these normal
cycles is what is alarming. Venus once had a more earth like atmosphere
in the distant past, but global warming run amok from natural causes, have
turned the planet into a Hellish place. True, some data appears to have been
manipulated, but the vast body of scientific data still indicates man made acceleration
of temperatures. We are dealing not with easily proven fundamental facts, but
rather with dynamic systems of weather , cycles of normal change and cycles
of abnormal change, that we are still groping to understand. Now, what this has
to do with PMs, is this, do not store them in coastal areas much past the next 20
years. Cause they might be under water when you need them. I can remember
hearing the same arguments about the our universe revolving around the earth
and the theory that the Earth is flat. I am really that old.
Camelot
For scientists I guess where you stand depends on who butters your bread. Scientists outside the heavily subsidized political-collegial frat house get squat. I've seen no "vast body" of evidence pointing to global warming by man made sources. Until ocean currents, sun radiation, and CO2 cycles are better understood it's best not to come up with data that fits a model based on a few decades of study. The large increases in temperatures during the early middle ages that dwarf today's so-called warming cannot be explained away by man's industrialzation. The CO2 levels back in the times long before man walked the earth was excessively high. These are inconvenient facts.
If there were no profit or advantage to being on either side of the above argument, I wonder how many new voices would be heard?
roadrunner
Of course, those things were the pop culture rage back then. The nut cases and alarmists have donned a different garb, but they're the same nut cases.
Roadrunner is correct. It's mostly about government grants and free money. Isn't it always?
I knew it would happen.
That the sky is falling. Now, who can refute such evidence.
Camelot
<< <i>True, some data appears to have been manipulated, but the vast body of scientific data still indicates man made acceleration of temperatures.
For scientists I guess where you stand depends on who butters your bread. Scientists outside the heavily subsidized political-collegial frat house get squat. I've seen no "vast body" of evidence pointing to global warming by man made sources. Until ocean currents, sun radiation, and CO2 cycles are better understood it's best not to come up with data that fits a model based on a few decades of study. The large increases in temperatures during the early middle ages that dwarf today's so-called warming cannot be explained away by man's industrialzation. The CO2 levels back in the times long before man walked the earth was excessively high. These are inconvenient facts.
If there were no profit or advantage to being on either side of the above argument, I wonder how many new voices would be heard?
roadrunner >>
Agreed 100%.
Knowledge is the enemy of fear
so that we can all start over with a clean slate.
Camelot
<< <i>True, some data appears to have been manipulated, but the vast body of scientific data still indicates man made acceleration of temperatures.
For scientists I guess where you stand depends on who butters your bread. Scientists outside the heavily subsidized political-collegial frat house get squat. I've seen no "vast body" of evidence pointing to global warming by man made sources. Until ocean currents, sun radiation, and CO2 cycles are better understood it's best not to come up with data that fits a model based on a few decades of study. The large increases in temperatures during the early middle ages that dwarf today's so-called warming cannot be explained away by man's industrialzation. The CO2 levels back in the times long before man walked the earth was excessively high. These are inconvenient facts.
If there were no profit or advantage to being on either side of the above argument, I wonder how many new voices would be heard?
roadrunner >>
Well said. As a former Audubon Society chapter president I saw how man-made global warming theory was promoted as a mix of science, politics and emotion. Today that theory it is embraced like a religion. Like a religion is comes complete with its own iconography - the supposedly doomed polar bears adrift on ice and evil corporations bent on destroying the Earth. Any scientist who disagrees with the theory is not only excluded from government research grants but is branded a heretic. Some have called for the prosecution of scientists who stray from the new orthodoxy.
Climategate revealed the extent to which the peer review system has been corrupted by politics. Worse yet, fraudulent research is being touted as the reason to surrender control of the private economy to bureaucrats.
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and Cousin Tyler, If there is no ice, what is going to happen to them.?
Camelot
There is a hell of a lot of money to be made by trading the carbon credits in order to diminish global warming. Were talking about huge sums of money that will go to the governments that will be taxing carbon emissions and private interests that trade these carbon credits and the public institutions that get the long term deals to measure the effect of the policies and generate research, it's a perfect circle, genius class. And, don't forget the new gov agencies that will need to be created to administer the program, or the cost of the empirical and theoretical science "findings" from the public institutions that are needed to justify the program, and then there are the quasi govt enterprises engaged in trading these carbon credits. All this is paid for by energy producers so that the greater interests of the gov, the universities, and the entrepreneurs can prosper.
So, if you tax fossil fuel energy production for the carbon offsets and that energy is used to generate electricity or power machines or cars, then who gets to pay? First the energy company pays then the end user pays, hapless pawns in a huge money raking scam while the Goreites, the gov, and the public institutions pocket the end user fees. It's a beautiful plan unless you happen to be that end user.
I predict that we will pass cap and trade kind of like we are going to pass health care. It's not perfect, it needs work but the cost of doing nothing doesn't generate any profit for anyone so, let's get this done.
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The wind will blow
Other than that ~ I really don't know!
My best wish is we all get to make a prediction for 2011
I predict the dow will be in the 7000's. I think we are in a W shaped recovery if you can call it that.
Box of 20
<< <i>Bear, you can only do that if your name is Citi, GM,Fannie, or Freddie Mac..
Love your avatar, "Charlie doesn't surf"
I never understand this claim. The USA will NEVER default on its debts as long as they can be paid with worthless paper.
<< <i>2. USA defaults, in part, on National debt
I never understand this claim. The USA will NEVER default on its debts as long as they can be paid with worthless paper. >>
That's the problem, if our lendorrs start refusing the dollar, or there is no one else to buy our debt.
The unexpected, is to be expected
Absolute security, exists only in the mind
What is unthinkable, is always possible
Treaties, assurances, promises are all illusions,
to be regarded as most fallible, to the preservation
of life, limb or resources.
Camelot
Ray
in order to place ones fears in a single
package. We hope that the package will
never be opened. The battle between hope
and fear is a finely balance mechanism, with
the fulcrum being the state of mind of the
American People.
Camelot
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The Platinum Proof 1 Oz will sell out very quickly - again.
It will be ugly and unloved by the diehard Plat Collector. Mintage limit will rise a bit. China will step in and offer a very appealing Plat series to entice the American Collector.
I will be POed at the US Mint all year long for only offering unappealing crap again. How I long for the days when you didn't have to pay for the current years common pocket change.
<< <i>1. World governments start to default on National Debt
2. USA defaults, in part, on National debt
3.Inflation begins to accelerate but continues to be hidden in part by Gov. Stats.
4. Rationing of gas begins, as Persian Gulf Oilpartially cut off
5. Gold and silver continue their rise but nothing spectacular yet.
6. 500 banks fail
7. Interest rates begin to rise raising
mortgage rates to 6.5%
8.Iran's Nuclear facilities bombed along with her
military facilities before summer 2010.
9. Rockets fly in the middle east.
10. VAT Tax in addition to Income Tax.
11. Limited draft for specific military specialties
as well as ground pounders to fill out new divisions.
12. Marine forces expanded , with formation of new division
13 Nation placed on Wartime Footing
14. Military formations sent to Africa, to combat Al- Qaeda terrorist
15. Coin prices continue at their tepid pace. Continuing shortage of premium quality coins.
16. The only good news is that there are a number
of deep salt mines fuzzy bears are able to hide in. >>
Bear..your predictions for 2010..well, I'm not even going to comment...