Imagine telling someone in 2014 that in 2024 and 2025:
German tanks are shooting at Russian tanks in Kursk
Xi Jinping, the Chinese communist leader, is egged on by investors to create more social stimulus and social safety nets but he hesitates as he thinks it will make Chinese people weak and complacent.
Bitcoin is at $100k
Donald Trump wins a second term after somehow taking blue collar and middle class voters away from the Democrats after going on the Joe Rogan podcast saying he wants to be a whale psychiatrist after he is done being president.
Democrats campaigning with Dick Cheney against Trump.
In Syria a suit-wearing ex-ISIS/Al Qaeda jihadist defeated Assad in under 2 weeks and seems obsessed with building institutions, vaguely respecting minority religious groups and not fighting the West. Shakes hands with Trump, Republicans seem to have no problem with this.
Interest rates at 4.5%, the S&P 500 trades at 30x earnings with record high profit margins while Trump is doing smoot hawley 2.0
The US government makes a $9 billion investment in Intel taking a 10% ownership stake.
AI that can communicate like humans and solve many problems better than most humans.
Warren Buffett converts Berkshire’s cash reserves into Bitcoin saying “now that sour puss Munger is gone, I can finally do what I really want! CRYPTO 69 420 BITCHES” He is seen at the Berkshire annual meeting wearing a baseball cap backwards.
I wonder if they can guess which one of those is not true. And I wonder what a list like this would look like 10 years from now that would seem unbelievable to people now. Aliens making contact with humanity? America adopting Communism (led by Republicans)? You really have to start reaching for truly crazy things to top this right?