[Cog]

Put them here. Cornies and doomers alike. Any type of events whether national or global. We shall see at the end of 2018 who is the Nostradamus in our midst.

I shall go first naturally

1)WTI oil Low $60 average for the year
2) 2000 point correction on the DOW but then goes big to the upside
3)Mueller will charge either Don Trump Jr or Kushner with lying to FBI. Neither will go to jail and the charges eventually dismissed. Trump will never be charged with a crime and will be cleared. Hillary won't go to jail either
4) No major wars will occur
5) Republicans will retain their majorities in the House and Senate

[evilgenius]

I predict Trump's body will begin to wear out on him. He's not as tough as a Bush, so he will show it when they didn't.

[Newfie]

Any particular signs of that or pure gut feeling?

[evilgenius]

I'm going to say that climate change will dominate the second half of this year. There are a lot of other things on the table right now, so, maybe, that is a tall order. I follow the Arctic sea ice conditions almost every day. I think there is real potential for those things not climate related to get pushed out of the way. In particular, I suggest that sea ice concentration indicates the Arctic may melt enough this year to alarm people. It also may be a hot summer in enough other places to dominate people's thoughts.

[Outcast_Searcher]

1). Short term US interest rates will continue to rise, as the FED continues to raise rates as a trend.

2). Scumbag banks will still mostly try to pay depositors a mere 0.1% or so for MANY types of deposits, even as they charge credit card holders well over 20% rates on average. (You can already get rates more like 1.75% for perfectly safe money market Treasury mutual funds, but you have to check rates, and be willing to move the money. Or even "high yield" internet bank accounts pay roughly 1.5%, but again, you have to go to the effort to move the money. As interest rates rise, you're just getting screwed more and more by the banks if you don't move the cash you don't need to spend in the short term. It's worth looking into.)

3). The Beltway (both sides of the aisle) will continue to put up with the banks charging usurious rates for unsecured credit and paying near zero, as they like donations from the powerful banking lobby far more than they like helping voters or "the little guy", no matter what they say.

4). Aside from that, Cog's predictions sound about right to me, but I'll add one.

5). When the stock market is weak, the left wing press will say its all Trump's fault. When the stock market is strong, they will say Trump has no real bearing on that.

[ROCKMAN]

The Rockman firmly predicts that 2018 will be followed by 2019. All other predictions are simply speculations with no FACTS to prove their validity. LOL.

[Shaved Monkey]

5). When the stock market is weak, the left wing press will say its all Trump's fault. When the stock market is strong, they will say Trump has no real bearing on that.

And Trump will take credit when it goes up via Tweet and ignore it in his tweets when it goes down

[Grifter]

5). When the stock market is weak, the left wing press will say its all Trump's fault. When the stock market is strong, they will say Trump has no real bearing on that.

And Trump will take credit when it goes up via Tweet and ignore it in his tweets when it goes down

Just like any politician.

Don’t know about the US, but I bet there will be a general election in the UK, another hung parliament but with Labour having more seats than conservative. Another EU country will decide to leave the EU, maybe two and it could be France and Italy.

But hey, predictions are fun.

[onlooker]

I predict the price of oil will plummet sometime this year

[Tanada]

Please review your 2018 predictions before casting your 2019 predictions.