The alternate title for this post was “Hyperinflation, and Reptiles, and Nibiru, oh my!”… but somehow, that would simply miss the doomsday quality I wanted to present.

I’m not a prophet nor a son of a prophet, so please don’t take these “predictions” too seriously. These are more like loose trends I’ve extrapolated well beyond any meaningful point, and I am certain that most of these ideas are grossly misinformed.

This is more of a vent of some of my doomer tendencies that I’ve likely harbooured into my salvation, and which also, in the light of the gracious gift of salvation I have by the redeeming love the Blessed Father has shown us through His Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ… are not much of a thing to get worried about.

Here goes… by the end of summer 2008, I expect we will see:

• The Housing market continues to implode as $450k+ McMansions plummet to something closer to their true worth (depending upon local markets, possibly as low as 50% of the peak of the 2006 bubble — especially in oversaturated markets like North California and Florida)

  And having personally (helped) frame and build some of these McMansions, they really aren’t worth much more than the $20k lumber pack they are made from, if my opinion counts for anything.

• Gold creeping above $1500 an ounce (makes me wish I had listened to my gut feelings about buying some a couple of years ago when it was in the $400/oz range…. *urk*).
• The $USD falling under ¥70 JPY (Mrs. Seeker’s mum will be happy to visit us from Japan and buy several dozen designer handbags on the cheap while here, assuming hyperinflation hasn’t set in by this summer)
• The Euro (€) rising to over $1.80 USD (largely as a function of Fed cranking up the printing presses and the Red Chinese and most other people with a brain dumping the dollar as silently as possible … at first)
• The British Pound Sterling (£) trading at $2.40 USD
• Oil bourses switching to Euro, Russian Rubles, Saudi Dinars and Red Chinese Yuan Renminbi (RMB) over the dollar (this may serve to dampen the dollar collapse somewhat, but will also signal the end of American economic significance)
• Unemployment begins to ratchet up as layoffs cascade from a staggering economy, and the rise of tent cities (Bushtowns, ala the Hoovervilles of the 1930s, or perhaps if it takes effect in 2009, they might be Hillaryvilles or Obamaburghs)
• The distant rumblings of possible food riots in the Fall, and perhaps silent removal of overseas Army unit and National Guards units back to the States as grain prices skyrocket, and food generally creeps ahead of rising gas and diesel costs, (which will easily creep north and stay north of $125/Bbl) … oh yeah, and let’s not forget the rising cost of 30.06 and 5.56 ammo for the trusty weapons.

Well, that’s just grist for the doomer mill, I reckon… fit only to be mixed in with those reports of reptilian aliens, CFR and Bohemian Grove conspiracies, and Planet Nibiru popping in for its 3,600-year reunion with our solar system in 2012 to usher in the “end of the universe” according to the I-Ching, Nostradamus and some gigantic Aztec calendar stone with pretty carvings.

I’m sure the Annunaki and a pile of outsized cannibal Nephilim will nip on over for some tea, biscuits, and human cattleburgers to set things up for the Final Antichrist while their planet is in the neighborhood too.

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Really, I got to start reigning in the dumb web sites I visit at night.