Our Fearless Predictions for 2025
Like a fruitcake that keeps being re-gifted, showing up again and again, it’s time for our annual predictions for the New Year. Read all ten predictions and at the end you’ll discover a little surprise about our list!
10. The Federal Reserve won’t stop managing the monetary system to benefit the banks that created it to serve their interests in the first place.
9. Foreign central banks won’t increase their dollar holdings, although they will increase their gold holdings.
8. Congress won’t reduce federal spending; it won’t stop creating trillion-dollar deficits; and it won’t make a serious attempt to reduce the $36 trillion national debt.
7. The Washington establishment won’t hold most of its members to the same legal standards that it applies to the ordinary people.
6. Washington Republicans and Democrats won’t stop trying to divide the people to win elections. They will, however, concentrate their attention on smaller divisive issues while the fundamental issues of America’s freedom and prosperity go unaddressed.
5. The establishment’s lapdog press won’t bother to report accurately on the fate of the dollar. Nor will their reporting on gold be accurate.
4. The establishment lapdog press won’t blame the nation’s monetary problems on the Federal Reserve and the nation’s money manipulators. It will blame the people instead.
3. While Washington may commission a study, launch a new bureau, or even appoint a bureaucrat, nothing meaningful will be done about the declining lifespan of the American people.
2. Monetary and fiscal policy won’t stop shrinking the American middle class.
1. In a crisis, you won’t see people standing in line to exchange their gold for paper money like dollars. It’s always the other way around.
Now here is the surprise…
These are basically the same predictions we made last year at the beginning of 2024! And at the beginning of 2023. And the year before that, at the beginning of 2022. And at the beginning of 2021. And 2020. And 2019!
Well, actually, they aren’t exactly the same. As the debt continues to climb, we have to make a change every year to number 8. Last year this national debt was closing in on $34 trillion. Now it has passed $36 trillion. Which proves the point of the prediction, that Washington won’t stop creating trillion-dollar deficits! DOGE may succeed in getting spending cuts made, but we don’t underestimate the power of the crony lobbyists and vote-buying politicians. We hope that we can admit defeat on this prediction and will do so cheerfully this time next year – if we must!
Perhaps we will have missed the boat on life expectancy. Expectancy fell so hard during the pandemic that the CDC says it may have recovered somewhat. In any case, we can be sure that American life expectancy will continue to fall behind other high-income and some middle-income nations. We don’t mean to be negative, and we wish Robert Kennedy the best in making America healthy again. But it will probably be a long-term project.
Because these predictions have worked out so well, we dusted them off to re-issue them for 2025 and we will probably do so again next year. How accurate do you think these predictions will be when we look back on them at the beginning of 2026?
In the meantime, all we can say is buy gold, and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year!