I just finished reading Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury. I believe the greatest political fight in 2018 domestically in the United States will be between the Trump family and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.
All of Kushner's real estate is cross collateralized and cross-defaulted. One default relating to a loan for any one property can throw the entire portfolio in distress. If Mueller's investigation leads to problems in Jared Kushner's business dealings, it could take him to Papa Kushner's business dealings also. Major components of Kushner's portfolio (including 666 Fifth Ave) need to be refinanced this year. Lenders may just shy away from lending to someone, in the Kushners, who is the target of a federal investigation. If these buildings are not refinanced, then the entire portfolio goes into default. Bad problem for the Kushner family.
Potential government shutdown. Will Trump be able to leverage the fate of the DACA kids to get his wall? Will the Dems cave?
The Mueller investigation. Seems like Trump & the GOP are doing everything they can to delegitimize the investigation, setting the stage for an attempt to have him fired. May see a redux of the Monday Night Massacre – leading to a Constitutional crisis.
Economic inequality. Will we continue see a widening gap between the haves & have-nots? The rich will clearly do well from the new tax plan. Will we see this turn into wages rising? Will the GOP need to cut medicare & social security to pay down the debt from the tax bill? This will be the defining issue of the mid-term elections, I think.
Agree. It then becomes a matter of how the GOP acts on this. Will they merely refuse his support in the 2018 elections, or will they go even further and push for impeachment?
I think net neutrality is going to be a bigger and bigger deal for the earlier start of the year, and then my hope is that later this year, the word starts to get out about different exciting mesh-network projects like TorontoMesh start to get some exposure and coverage.
World peace i guess will be a major issue. Well, it has been that way though but in 2017, peace has been abused majorly. @richwonder81 is also right, the NoKor issue is really alarming @davidpakman
The part of how to protect ourselves in this 2018 is super complicated if we do not seek God first .... I live in Venezuela, a country where events and very terrible things have happened to inflation ... The thing is that many of us have done many things to to be able to survive, to have a quiet and healthy life ... Our Country "Venezuela" is practically Dolarizasa $ almost everywhere, because where you go to buy something, you sell it ... to the same thing that came out in dollar ... but That is not the problem we are taking, not ... the question is that we exchange bolivares Bsf. that does not reach for anything and is the least valued currency in the whole world ... !!
"We work hard to collect in Bolivares Bsf. And what we buy, we buy it in Dollars $" How do we advance or do we get savings like this? ????
Depends on what the left/centre left parties manages to propose. WIll they provide new corporatist alternatives such as Hillary and Macron? And thus leave most to either stay home or vote against a far-right populist alternative? Or will there be a more progressive alternative that younger liberals actually feel represent their views?
In terms of topics I would say the biggest one will be between those who believe free speech must be preserved at any cost, versus those who will eagerly sacrifice it at the altar of social justice and identify politics (i.e the far "regressive" left), or give it up under the delusion that giving up some of our privacy on the internet will somehow radically boost our security against terrorism (i.e Republican right).
-greater push for censorship in the name of progress and safety
-a cryptocurrency revolt (more people will adopt Crypto as a transaction medium)
-More news agencies will be uncovered for harboring duplicitous abusers (people who publicly say they're opposed to rape culture and sexual harrassment, but are perpetrators themselves)
-Riots in big cities due to political protests
Depends what Wikileaks or Qanon come up with this time...
Facebook will attack steemit with all the guns, youtube will die and we will deal in crypto without fiat at the end of this y
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I just finished reading Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury. I believe the greatest political fight in 2018 domestically in the United States will be between the Trump family and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.
that well may be!
All of Kushner's real estate is cross collateralized and cross-defaulted. One default relating to a loan for any one property can throw the entire portfolio in distress. If Mueller's investigation leads to problems in Jared Kushner's business dealings, it could take him to Papa Kushner's business dealings also. Major components of Kushner's portfolio (including 666 Fifth Ave) need to be refinanced this year. Lenders may just shy away from lending to someone, in the Kushners, who is the target of a federal investigation. If these buildings are not refinanced, then the entire portfolio goes into default. Bad problem for the Kushner family.
Facebook will go to have some crash, bitcoin to 100K, Steem in big point of the street :{ YOUTUBE VS DTube.
those are some interesting predictions
Pie in the sky?
Here are a few I’m seeing:
On the Mueller investigation, the GOP will not stick with Trump if Mueller makes allegations of money laundering by the Trump and Kushner families.
Agree. It then becomes a matter of how the GOP acts on this. Will they merely refuse his support in the 2018 elections, or will they go even further and push for impeachment?
North Korea and Nuclear issues,
Israel's new Capital(Jerusalem) and Palestine
I think net neutrality is going to be a bigger and bigger deal for the earlier start of the year, and then my hope is that later this year, the word starts to get out about different exciting mesh-network projects like TorontoMesh start to get some exposure and coverage.
I think that steemit will go ahead and will beat facebook
World peace i guess will be a major issue. Well, it has been that way though but in 2017, peace has been abused majorly. @richwonder81 is also right, the NoKor issue is really alarming @davidpakman
I think immigration is going to be one, It is about time USA comes to a consensus about this issue and stop making it political. @davidpakman
I think we can all agree that the major issue will be to prove who has the bigger button.
And we all know the answer is me! :P
World peace and democratic process. Its not been easy in the past years and still not going to be quit very easy this 2018
The part of how to protect ourselves in this 2018 is super complicated if we do not seek God first .... I live in Venezuela, a country where events and very terrible things have happened to inflation ... The thing is that many of us have done many things to to be able to survive, to have a quiet and healthy life ... Our Country "Venezuela" is practically Dolarizasa $ almost everywhere, because where you go to buy something, you sell it ... to the same thing that came out in dollar ... but That is not the problem we are taking, not ... the question is that we exchange bolivares Bsf. that does not reach for anything and is the least valued currency in the whole world ... !!
"We work hard to collect in Bolivares Bsf. And what we buy, we buy it in Dollars $" How do we advance or do we get savings like this? ????
Depends on what the left/centre left parties manages to propose. WIll they provide new corporatist alternatives such as Hillary and Macron? And thus leave most to either stay home or vote against a far-right populist alternative? Or will there be a more progressive alternative that younger liberals actually feel represent their views?
In terms of topics I would say the biggest one will be between those who believe free speech must be preserved at any cost, versus those who will eagerly sacrifice it at the altar of social justice and identify politics (i.e the far "regressive" left), or give it up under the delusion that giving up some of our privacy on the internet will somehow radically boost our security against terrorism (i.e Republican right).
The big things of 2018 will be:
-greater push for censorship in the name of progress and safety
-a cryptocurrency revolt (more people will adopt Crypto as a transaction medium)
-More news agencies will be uncovered for harboring duplicitous abusers (people who publicly say they're opposed to rape culture and sexual harrassment, but are perpetrators themselves)
-Riots in big cities due to political protests
i been hearing alot of rumors of a impeachment ? hmm