Guest Post: Fiscal Farce, Failure, Fantasy, & Fornication

Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog, I’ve put off writing an article about what is likely to happen in 2013 so I could peruse the thousands of other articles by reputable bloggers, paid pundits, Wall Street shills and captured charlatans to gather their wisdom. It’s essential that I make predictions for 2013 so I can write another article in December rationalizing why 90% of my predictions failed to materialize. Reading all of these 2013 prediction articles made things much clearer for me. I now know for sure: The stock market will reach an all-time high. The stock market will fall 42%. The economy will strengthen as the year progresses. The economy will descend into a depression. The USD will strengthen. The USD will collapse. Gas prices will set new highs. Gas prices will fall below 2012 levels. Gold will rise to $10,000 per ounce. Gold will drop below $1,000 per o...