Peering Into Your ‘09 Future…With Kreskin!
by Efin Advisor | December 29, 2008
It might not take a Kreskin to predict financial gloom in the year ahead, but that hasn’t stopped the actual Kreskin from making just such a proclamation.
As reported in the Tonawanda News, the famed hypnotist The Amazing Kreskin, born George Kresge Jr., went out on a limb with the latest presidential election, predicting in December 2007 — when no less than 10 candidates were alive in the race — that Barack Obama would win.
In addition to his Obama prediction, Kreskin correctly said the New York Giants would win last year’s Super Bowl by three points, and that a cloud of social controversy would hang over the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Many of Kreskin’s predictions come from studying the past, which he said can teach society a lot about itself. Among the blasts from the past he predicts to make a comeback in 2009 are trains and mom-and-pop stores
Kreskin predicts good things for bartenders and clowns in 2009, both of which will reappear en masse due to people’s desire to escape reality and have a shoulder upon which to cry.
In a year when all TV broadcasts will go digital, Kreskin foresees families turning off their sets with greater frequency to take part on older forms of entertainment.
Back to his discussion of finances, Kreskin said that a lack of money will lead to at least two direct consequences — the spread in popularity of shepherd’s pie, which can be made cheaply with leftovers, and a decline in the divorce rate.
What do you predict will be the cultural, social or lifestyle changes that will affect your life in 2009?
I’m not sure about the bartenders. I doubt people will be drinking more when the money is tight. Alcohol seems like one of those things people will spend less on. Movies will probably get a big boom this year. I know this holiday season was big at the box office. Movies give you a lot to talk about, are fun, and provide hours of entertainment. That’s what is going to be big this year. A lot of good movies coming out too. Cant wait to see some
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It would be really neat if clowns came back. Other than the clowns that are purposefully sad like Pagliacci, clowns are really entertaining and there’s nothing to it. Kreskin seems to have a good track record so i think he may be right on this one, at the very least i would like it if he were right lol. Television provides lots of entertainment fairly cheaply so that willl probably be strong this year too.
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At first glance I thought that even considering the opinion of a hypnotist on something as robust and complex as the economy was laughable, like taking advice on how best to fix the particle accelerator at CERN from an infant. It has since occurred to me that, nobody seems able to figure out what the heck is happening, and doesn’t know a way to stop it- economics is not an exact science anyway, perhaps a pseudoscience is the best way to find the right direction for our policy to go.
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