His approval ratings have sunk and are still sinking. He’s taking flak from the Left, being carpet bombed by the Right. He's about to lose some of his chief advisors.
Yet, I predict… should he choose to run, the winner of the next presidential election will be none other than Barack Hussein Obama.
If you have predictions of your own, I'd love to hear ‘em.
— jules
Thursday, September 30, 2010
4. The Republican Candidate
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Meg’s Game Plan
Margaret Cushing Whitman, the fourth richest woman in California, has spent more of her own money running for governor than any candidate has ever spent running for any office in history.
Win or lose, I predict her real goal will be revealed during the next presidential elections, when she will put her name forward as the candidate for Vice President of the United States.
Who will be her running mate? Stay tuned.
Win or lose, I predict her real goal will be revealed during the next presidential elections, when she will put her name forward as the candidate for Vice President of the United States.
Who will be her running mate? Stay tuned.
Sarah's Future
She's the hottest ticket in American politics. Her books are selling out, her tweets are breathlessly reported, and in Republican primaries, she's backed the winning candidate time after time after time. Yet I predict that Sarah Louise Palin will not be the Republican candidate for President in the next election.
— jules
— jules
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Homeward Bound
AND here we ago again. For the third time, I'm prognosticating about the near future. Here are this year’s five predictions — five in five days — about America’s economy and politics.
In both previous predictions, I said that despite expert opinion to the contrary, I believed falling housing prices had yet to hit bottom. I now predict… exactly the same. For the next 12 months, prices will continue to fall.
— jules
- Homeward Bound
In both previous predictions, I said that despite expert opinion to the contrary, I believed falling housing prices had yet to hit bottom. I now predict… exactly the same. For the next 12 months, prices will continue to fall.
— jules
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Friday, January 2, 2009
ANOTHER RIGHT. ALAS.
In November, I posted:
HOUSE OF CARDS My prediction regarding the stock market? Ditto, the housing market. It will sink ever deeper than it has to date, and it won't be surfacing for a long time. That’s despite expert advice that this is the ideal time to buy, despite widely running ads about all the money to be made in real estate, and despite a National Public Radio report just two days ago about how the housing market is already turning around. They say it is. I predict that with a few exceptions, it is not.
Sadly, I got that one right, too. On December 30, Bloomberg News wrote:
Phoenix, the desert city that three years ago led the U.S. in home price growth, had the nation’s worst housing market during October as sales of foreclosed properties depressed prices.
The cost of a single-family home plunged 33 percent from a year earlier, according to an S&P/Case Shiller index. The decline was worse than Las Vegas , where prices fell 32 percent… U.S. House prices fell 18 percent in October, a record in eight years of data.
One day later, The Guardian (UK) reported:
House prices in 20 big US cities fell at their fastest rate on record in the year to October as rising unemployment, rationed credit and a glut of foreclosed properties led to fresh weakness in the market…
David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor's, said: "The bear market continues; home prices are back to their March 2004 levels."
The gloomy survey prompted analysts to predict that the housing downturn in the world's biggest economy will last for a fourth year in 2009.
A word about my predictions. By no means am I the only one who foresaw falling prices. But for every one of us gloomsters, there was an abundance of happy optimists. As I wrote my housing prediction, real estate was being touted as a good investment, and respected commentators were talking about promising signs of a turnaround.
Why has my untrained eye been so much more accurate than that of so many professionals? I'm not entirely sure, but this quote from The Shadow of the Wind by Carolos Ruiz Zafon caught my attention. “Clara’s father believed that nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds. He had a good understanding of history and knew that the future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.”
I hope my predictions, the gloomy and the optimistic, prove helpful to you in 2009.
— jules
HOUSE OF CARDS My prediction regarding the stock market? Ditto, the housing market. It will sink ever deeper than it has to date, and it won't be surfacing for a long time. That’s despite expert advice that this is the ideal time to buy, despite widely running ads about all the money to be made in real estate, and despite a National Public Radio report just two days ago about how the housing market is already turning around. They say it is. I predict that with a few exceptions, it is not.
Sadly, I got that one right, too. On December 30, Bloomberg News wrote:
Phoenix, the desert city that three years ago led the U.S. in home price growth, had the nation’s worst housing market during October as sales of foreclosed properties depressed prices.
The cost of a single-family home plunged 33 percent from a year earlier, according to an S&P/Case Shiller index. The decline was worse than Las Vegas , where prices fell 32 percent… U.S. House prices fell 18 percent in October, a record in eight years of data.
One day later, The Guardian (UK) reported:
House prices in 20 big US cities fell at their fastest rate on record in the year to October as rising unemployment, rationed credit and a glut of foreclosed properties led to fresh weakness in the market…
David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor's, said: "The bear market continues; home prices are back to their March 2004 levels."
The gloomy survey prompted analysts to predict that the housing downturn in the world's biggest economy will last for a fourth year in 2009.
A word about my predictions. By no means am I the only one who foresaw falling prices. But for every one of us gloomsters, there was an abundance of happy optimists. As I wrote my housing prediction, real estate was being touted as a good investment, and respected commentators were talking about promising signs of a turnaround.
Why has my untrained eye been so much more accurate than that of so many professionals? I'm not entirely sure, but this quote from The Shadow of the Wind by Carolos Ruiz Zafon caught my attention. “Clara’s father believed that nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds. He had a good understanding of history and knew that the future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.”
I hope my predictions, the gloomy and the optimistic, prove helpful to you in 2009.
— jules
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