Gaze into the crystal ball and what do you see?

Mine is gold prices will climb to at least $1,800/oz. by year-end, thanks to the egregious U.S. tax cut legislation favoring global corporations and the top 1%. The dollar has been getting hammered. In the last twelve months the dollar index is down 13%! It's not good when a former Treasury Secretary, Lew, comes out today and says the U.S. debt situation is a "ticking time bomb" because of the tax cuts, leaving the nation broke. If you exclude the effects from the dollar's depreciation last year, the stock market rise was not that remarkable in 2017, with the S&P rising about 5%. The gains have nothing to do with any Trump personality cult effect, and everything to do with currency depreciation. The government and the Fed know that the stock market bubble can only continue by depreciating the currency, and that's what's going on. But it's an unsustainable course, because interest rates will rise. The government cannot continue to spend trillions it doesn't have, nor can the Fed do another round of QE to artificially depress rates as they have done, not without disastrous consequences in terms of market confidence.

Gold prices are at a 3 month high today. Oil, too, is up. Maybe Ogie was right about oil after all, but not for the reasons he gave.

Good post.

Buy Bitcoin!

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Trump has a heart attack in June down in Mar-a-lago. Doesn't die.
New England wins the Superbowl.
Cubs win the World Series.
Major terrorist attack in April in LA.
Black Panther is awesome.
Ian McKellen dies in September.
Announcement that Back to the Future will be re-booted and take place in present day and time travel 30yrs back to the 80s. The new DeLorean will be a Tesla.

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And Marty will be a tranny named Martina...

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Still a male Marty McFly but Doc Brown will be played by Melissa McCarthy or Kate McKinnon.

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Cubs win 98 games and make it to the WS again(lose).

White Sox lose 90+ games again.

Sorry to spoil your erotic fam fiction fantasy but

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/back-to ... -zemeckis/

Robert Zemeckis dies in February.

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Ha!

Virginia McCaskey, Charlie Weiss die. Trump comes out clean in the Russia probe. Amazon delivers a package via drone.

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I will be on TV.

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CSFMB: Home of the small minded

Something amazing will happen.

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GO BEARS!!!

The Pat Tomasulo show will suck.
Nobody cares that Hawk is leaving broadcasting.
jason88cubs makes good on his promise to stop posting.
Designing Women is considered for a reboot.
Trump takes credit for airplanes not crashing.
DiCaro and WSCR part ways.
HawaiiYou posts about Famous Amos cookies.
Cubs fans aren't as obnoxious as usual.
Joe Buck is implicated.
People are sick of iPhones.
Chimichurri sweeps over the nation.
Gerald McRaney again gets nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (but he doesn't win this time.)
Recyclable K-Cups become the norm.
Cardi B does the unthinkable.
Talk of a Back To The Future remake leaks, but public opinion is against it.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I’m really surprised no one put the Mr. T gif predicting pain.

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Elections have consequences.

Rumor is Amazon is making plans on buying Target.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Local:
1. The Pat Tomasulo show will suck, but Sinclair will syndicate it to all 173 of their owned stations and he'll become a phenomenon among redneck wives waiting for the infomercials to start.
2. Cheryl Scott will have an abortion.
3. Brent Seabrook will be traded, but they'll have to include Crawford to convince somebody like Phoenix to take the contract.
4. Sammy Sosa will start identifying as Caucasian on government documents.
5. DaMaNaaa will end up doing pre/intermission/post for the Blackhawks next season.

Global:
1. Kim Jung Un will die before the end of the year. No prediction as to if he takes all of the Korean peninsula with him.
2. There will be a forest fire in California.
3. The Republicans will lose 60 seats in the House and 10 in the Senate
4. Brexit will be reversed, ostensibly to keep peace in Northern Ireland but really because it was a fucking stupid idea.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I hope you’re right on the chimmichuri.

--Barry Bonds pens Still an Asshole, his first volume of published poetry
--The SEC breaks away from the NCAA and becomes the NFL's minor leagues; as a result, hundreds of Coaching Strategies and Bowling II professors are let go
--Also, Vanderbilt moves to the B1G, offsetting the homely chicks at Indiana's B1G schools while enhancing the league's baseball fortunes at the same time
--Democratic Senators release a spoken word album entitled Bigger, Better, Blacker, More!
--Orrin Hatch dies during a premature autopsy
--pittmike brings back that squawking parrot meme
--Dr. Ken, RR, and JORR podcast from the Quad before the Illini-Penn State (futbol norteamericano) game
--Negan wins

Best chimichuri is at Longitud315 in Highwood

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Republicans keep the House

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GO BEARS!!!

I'm in for that! I can promise it would be better than the ESPN multi casts

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I'll bet you a bottle of Mr. John Daniels on that one.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

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Elections have consequences.

You got it

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GO BEARS!!!

I'm sorry but when I win, I want a bottle of Barbancourt rhum. It's about the same price at Kenwood. And I expect to share it with you in celebration.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Sounds like a plan.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

0-3. Good to see you are picking up right where you left off in 2017.

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Dan Bernstein will be fired for harassment charges....start his own podcast ( they all do ) wind up selling Chevy Suburbans' for Grossingers ( they all do )

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.