Predictions for 2024

Last year I didn’t do very well at all. Out of ten, only one was accurate. However, I was close to right on a couple of others, but not right enough to get credit. Will last years epic failure deter me from making predictions for 2024? Absolutely not.

Now, here is the disclaimer — I am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet; I have no clairvoyance; there is no crystal ball; Greenbean has no inside mystical information. No, none of that. I am simply looking at the winds, the trends, and the data and making some very very doubtful guesses. As always, these are not things I necessarily want to happen, but I think will happen. Please don’t ascribe any wishful thinking or agenda to these.

Here goes my ten predictions for 2024.

The war between Israel and Hamas will expand into open war between Iran and Israel, which will increase support for Israel in the United States and the West. War in Ukraine will end in the first half of the year as Ukraine cedes claims to the Donbas region and the territories taken by Russia in Crimea in 2014 while Russian agrees to withdraw troops and promises to not hinder or oppose Ukraine’s full entry into NATO, thereby protecting the rest of the nation from further incursions. There will be an overthrow of the Communist rule in China. Contrary to the way it looks now, neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump will win a second presidency in 2024. The San Francisco 49ers will play the Miami Dolphins in the Super Bowl.The Seattle Mariners will win a playoff series.In the lame duck session a real, meaningful immigration and border reform bill will finally pass. Fueled by energy from the Dobbs decision, Democrats will win both the House and the Senate. The United Kingdom will petition to rejoin the E.U.Even though inflation is coming down, The Federal Reserve will keep interest rates high.

Okay folks. That’s it. Those are my predictions for 2024.