Last Year's Predictions
Last December I made a few prediction for the upcoming year. A few have come true (mp3 players in phones, the Knicks falling from 1st place to finish horribly, the stock market going up while the economy stayed stagnent, discovering nothing on Mars, etc.), while other have not (Chinese man on the moon, wireless cable tv, troop levels in Iraq, and google losing market share). I am still working on controlling the weather and time travel, and thus my ability to predict the future is still a bit off. Nevertheless, here are my predictions for 2006. 1) The Republicans majority in the House of Representatives with decline only from 29 to 16 (which would be a Republican victory considering a lame-duck President and his very low approval rate). The races with be among the dirtiest in history and will end up dividing the Republican party, creating problems in 2008. 2) The Dow Jones will end the year 12,571 (currently 10,798) after dipping to below 9,000 in the spring. The economy will cont