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A prediction for worldevents 22/23

Actually, on the whole we’re doing better today than ever before in history.

Here are some recent books that’ll cheer you up:

• Marian Tupy & Ronald Bailey, Ten Global Trends
• Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley, Superabundance
• Björn Lomborg, False Alarm
• Michael Schellenberger, Apocalypse Never
• Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
I predict that in 2023 Joe Biden will deliver no speeches whatsoever ...
My prediction DC movie would do much better than marvel this year because of they would not include that kind of "scene"...
I’m just asking my self in kind of shock: Is this really starting to happen now????!!!!?!??!??!!

@Eyon-chess said in #1:
> I strongly believe that the entire economic system is dying now and will completely, and I mean completely, collapse within a year, most likely before Christmas this year. By next summer there will be a new world order in which money will no longer exist. Instead, everyone will be strictly controlled and given food and other needs under strictly controlled systems.
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> The reason is simple: There has been money printing of beyond proportions ever since 2008, which is now being reversed since there is no other options as long as the amount of debt an money supply the last years has been so abnormally much larger than the supply of food, goods, energy and other products. Since 2008 there has been a hidden agenda inside the western governments, and the big eastern coyntries: Print money through the debt-system, as much as it takes in order to buy as much as possible. The winners is the countries that has printed and bought the most, both through the governmental debt-system and through the personal debt-system. Now everyone and allmost every governments is buried 10-100-1000-folds in debt. The reversal has started in USA, as you know. The interest rates are raised and the authorities' mountains of purchased bonds are now required to be eventually repaid/repurchased. As the Fed says, inflation must be stopped at all costs. The point is, it's far too late. The measures had to have been implemented many years ago for it to have worked. But the authorities cannot continue printing now and not take interest rate-raising/money supply-reducing measures, because then the ongoing rocket-like inflation will in any case only skyrocket even faster. That means money must be withdrawn from shares and used to repay debt bonds, interest etc worldwide. When everything is in bubbles, the bubbles will burst in chain reactions. Combined with uncontrolled exploding shortages of energy, food and input goods due to war and other blockages in world trade, a China in a property-related debt nightmare that lowers production from there, climate disaster with drought replaced by flash floods, etc, the winter will consist of a greatly increasing lack of money to buy things with, as well as the fact that gas, energy, food and other goods are becoming even more difficult to obtain sufficiently due to the climate disasters, the blockades and the war(s). Everything will snap like china putters on a string towards spring. This will lead to even more war and conflict (countries will literally, in sheer desperation for raw materials, food and resources lacking for a screaming population, start wars and fight over these missing resources). Bankruptcy worldwide will follow. Banks will not receive the money from issued debt. Bank customers will be blocked from withdrawing money. And the entire financial system will most likely die out by Christmas/spring. A new world order becomes imperative as the only solution. And money ceases to be a system. Instead, everyone will experience that food and other needs are met only through strictly controlled systems, where money will no longer be a part.
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> The time when the crudest, greediest and rich could help themselves to the dinner plate before the others more modest, cautious and poor, will be history. In the new era, everyone will have to find a way to share as equally as possible, based on fairer systems.
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> Cheers and good luck. Take care of each other, show care and joy in these challenging times ahead. Life is a fascinating strange mystery.
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> Note: This is only a speculation about a possible scenario. And I do not encourage anyone to buy or sell based on this speculation.
What is it about human psychology that has people constantly predicting the "end of times"? Is it a safeguard, so you can expect the worst?

I have to agree with clouse on this one. Contrary to what another poster mentioned, the population will NOT keep growing imo, it is actually forecast to level out and decline. Fresh water may be the biggest near term issue, but advancements in desalination and energy could quickly make this moot.

Unless nukes start dropping from the UKR/RUS war, humanity will, believe it or not, keep getting better off. Polticial zealots would like you to think one side or another will "destroy your country" if they get power. This is complete nonsense.
@Sleepy_Gary said in #27:
> Unless nukes start dropping from the UKR/RUS war, humanity will, believe it or not, keep getting better off.
The really good thing about this war is we can continue to pretend global warming doesn't exist and a fortiori isn't an existential threat.

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