PremiumThings That Won't Happen In 2025
Authored by Dario Perkins and Alexandros Xenofontos via TS Lombard,
A light-hearted, satirical look at what the New Year might bring
A new NATO “system”, Muskonomics, Trump vs Powell 2.0 and EMU bailouts
The big problem this time is that some of these things might actually happen
Each December, we publish bold “non-consensus” forecasts for the year ahead. Rather disturbingly, some of those predictions come true. Worse still, since we first started this exercise a decade ago, it has become increasing difficult for our readers to discern whether or not we are joking – such is the increasingly bizarre nature of today’s world. This year, the distinction between reality and satire is arguably fuzzier than ever before, and there is a very strong possibility that some (maybe even several) of our predictions for 2025 are realized. But which ones?