2012, end of the world

2012 predictions: the more things change... by Sharon Astyk. First of all, I owe y'all an apology for the radio silence. Somehow this month I've felt a deep need for some quiet, rest and offlineness. It was quite an autumn here - it ...

Puffing and plodding, the American economy needed all of 2011 to build a bit of momentum going into the New Year.

A gut prediction.

It was great meeting you, 2011. And I'm not trying to be nice. You picked up where 2010 left off and, boy, what a job you've done. You took our already grave crisis and gave it extra dimensions. Old illusions have been wiped away but you sowed the seeds for new ones. Which is good.

From floods that crippled countries, to mega cyclones, huge blizzards, killer tornadoes to famine-inducing droughts, 2011 has been another record-breaker for bad weather.

While that certainly doesn't guarantee anything about the accuracy of my perspective, the so-called experts and talking heads on T.V. have been wrong far more than they've been right since 2005. The odds are my prediction will be more ...

An investor lucky enough to have slept through most of 2011 might awaken this Christmas morning thinking that nothing much happened the past 12 months. And why not? The S&P 500 is only a stone’s throw away from where it began the year, and, as he was last...

The good news is that Wall Street experts think stock prices will rise more than 10 percent next year. The bad news is that they expected big gains in 2011 and got nearly zero instead.It's forecasting ...

By Kelpie Capital. "Forecasts tell you little about the future but a lot about the forecaster," says Warren Buffett Read more » »

Fitch warns it may follow Standard & Poor's lead and downgrade America from its AAA rating, attacking the country's high and rising government debt burden.

The Fairfax Gallery team do an annual set of political predictions. They're normally very accurate so on the basis that if you can't beat them, join them I'd figure I'd offer my own set of predictions for 2012:

A sales promotion at a shopping mall in Beijing. Experts say it will be necessary for the country to try all methods to expand domestic demand in 2012 to cope with the harsh economic situation.