7. A few crazy-ass months to end 2008.
8. The worst of the credit crunch abates. The economy is in deep recession, but outright armageddon has been avoided. America is left with an economy newly injected with the heaviest dose yet of the Fed's funny money and the most nationalized American banking system since Andrew Jackson killed The Second National Bank.
9. Many second and third world economies go the way of Zimbabwe, with their governments only avoiding outright default by igniting hyperinflations that destroy their currencies. Pakistan is one of those countries and we all freak our sh*t over it. Only China is solvent enough to provide the sorts of emergency loans once provided by the United States. Some Kissinger or Soros or other old white dude is all over the Sunday morning talk shows calling China the world's new lone superpower. The "War on Terror" is quietly reigned in as a much weaker US is forced to pay attention to the desires of the rest of the world.
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3 comments:
You've given us your predictions. Now can you help us figure out what to wear for all the new oppression and depression? I want something drab that says "bleak" at the same time it says "cool".
I'm looking forward to wearing those awesome fidoras again. Hopefully about the time before I really go bald!
Some ideas:
1. Italian suits purchased on credit.
2. The styles of the roaring 90's. Grunge in particular would provide a wonderfully smarmy irony.
3. Two words. Leonard Freaking Bernstein.
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