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Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

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Re: Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

#271
- Boris Johnson resigns or is institutionalised

- house prices in the UK increase by 10%

- Crypto is banned in the EU (and other places?) for environmental reasons

- Jeff Bezos will surpass 300bn USD in net worth

- A billionaire tax will be introduced in the US (only to be cancelled by Trump when he gets back in in 2024)

Re: Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

#272

- COVID will continue to be a thing. Some new variant will come along and force everyone to lock down again. - The fed will have no choice but to keep interest rates low. This means we will have another year of rapidly rising asset prices. - Supply chain issues will get worse throughout 2022, massively fueled by US-China tensions and COVID related shifts in demand. Major inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s…

TOO SOON!

Re: Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

#273

Ok, I'll play. - Rent and housing prices will rise far faster than inflation, leading to record numbers of both involuntary cohabitation and homelessness. Construction for affordable housing and non-luxury rent properties will not substantially increase, resulting in major economic upheaval in most metro areas, even relatively small ones. - The Great Resignation and massive labor shortages will continue unabated, and…

Have you read "The Storm Before The Calm" by George Friedman? He makes a lot of very similar predictions to you. Highly recommend reading this book. I generally agree with these predictions. My sense is that our society has SERIOUSLY screwed up the natural balance of the economy in an unprecedented way. It's going to get a lot worse, and it's going to feed directly into the deepening political polarization we've all…

Never heard of it, but I may check that out next time I'm looking for a good read! Thanks for the recommendation!
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