Reply #27: It depends if the person making the prediction is relying on indicators that

[truedelphi]

A logical mind would notice, or "intuition"

This post seems to be well grounded in both an understanding of the basics of economics, and the basics of the study of Empires rising and falling, and the overall "game plan" that has occurred over the last two years.

This game plan involves only the successful THEFT of the eleven to fourteen trillion dollars that Bernanke and Geithenr, with Paulson before them, have snatched away from the real economy and handed over to AIG and Goldman Sachs.

So chances are pretty Good that the future predicted by zerohedges will become reality.

Of course, events left unconsidered from this discourse by zerohedges, such as civil unrest, huge natural catastrophes, like Earthquakes hitting the SF Bay area, or some benevolent UNTHEFT (Think of Robin Hood computer hackers that return the stolen monies from Wall Street, giving the trillions to Main Street where it rightfully belongs) can still change this outcome.

Or if people got up and created a worker's movement, or a People's Union, and throughhard work and courage on the streets, took back this corrupt society of ours. In the teens, twenties and thirties, this country had a huge people's movement, such that 24 states banned outright foreclosures, and people would rally at any household when the eviction people came to put a family in the streets.

Instead we watch "Can She Dance" or whatever, and hope that Obama will turn into some mythic fairy prince. Which he cannot do, as the puppeteer's strings are already firmly attached, guiding him into doing the Corporate Bidding.