THB 2025 Predictions

Ten questions anticipating the next year

Happy 2025!

This post is a time capsule. I ask 10 questions below about how 2025 will turn out across politics, stocks, conflict, energy and climate, disasters, and sport. Please put your predictions, thoughts, justifications in the comments and we will together look back in a year. The best prediction(s) in the comments will win a lifetime paid subscription to THB (value = infinite!).

1. Which G7 world leaders will still be in office this time next year?

   1. Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

   2. France: President Emmanuel Macron

   3. Germany: Chancellor Olaf Scholz

   4. Italy: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

   5. Japan: Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

   6. Other? Outside G7?

Questions 2 through 10 below . . . Have fun!