12 Non-Obvious Predictions for 2012

Here are my non-obvious macro predictions for 2012 given without any reasons..

1. Former Colonies Bail Out Countries :  Brazil will bail out Portugal.

2. The World's Population Decreases : This will end certain Ponzi-like Schemes.

3. North & South Korea Starts to Unify : OccupyPyongyang.

4. Iran Attacked, and not by Israel : Hackers protect the Hormuz.

5. Poland and Turkey Act as Europe's Growth Engine : Take PIIGS Out of Headlines

6. BRICs will become BIT : Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey as other Emerging Markets Regress

7. US and European Elections Followed Up With Mass Protests : End of Entitlements to cause Civil Wars.

8. Cuba's Economy Doubles : With or Without a Castro at the helm.

9. Something From Space Will Change the World : Not talking about aliens or asteroids, but rather new resource discovery or satellite issues.

10. Entrepreneurial Creative Destruction and Micro-finance on Hold : The next "Big Thing" will much harder for the small guy or gal.

11. Asian & South American Currency Crisis Part II : Dollar's strength (sans QE3) creates unintended collateral damage.

12. Stockgut's Predictions are Guaranteed to be Wrong : Then again maybe #12 is wrong.  Hope you've been entertained from a so-called non-expert.

"PIIGS" was so summer 2011

In case you've been wondering what my tweets with "PIIGSS.LAMMMBSS.FFKNG.CAVE" mean.  It's my new acronym for the EuroZone countries...330 million users worldwide.


Portugal
Ireland
Italy
Greece
Spain
Slovakia
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Luxembourg
Andorra
Malta
Monaco
Montenegro
Belgium
San Marino
Slovenia
.
France
Finland
Kosovo
Netherlands
Germany
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Cyprus
Austria
Vatican City
Estonia


Some countries probably don't deserve to be "acronymized" but All-for-one-One-for-all.  The acronym does have an Added Bonus:  it has a subliminal prediction in it!  It doesn't translate well into other languages, but oh well, you get the point.  Feel free to use it.  It's not trademarked, so go ahead, create some bumper sticks.


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European Commission http://ec.europa.eu/ 
European Central Bank http://www.ecb.int
International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org