When it's over, all the shills on ZeroHedge will say "we truly thought that buy-the-dip was dead." It'll be found that china bought a bunch of majority stakes in major companies. There will be a move to consolidate or disband the national guard. 'Antivaxxers', exemptions, and other 'chinese sympathizers, whos ideologies intentionally or unintentionally aid china' will be politically scapegoated. Things will return to 'normal', and we'll see a federal push not merely for new tracking capabilities for 'the health and safety of society' (they're already pushing this, to make the CDC nsa-lite), but 'serious, sober conversations we need to have about mandatory social distancing and tracking. Like, what if this happens again? Can we really expect people to keep their cell phones on them at all times so we know where they are? What if a chinese national, or some other person with connections to a state sponsor of terrorism, maybe a state who released a biological weapon..what if this person connected to that country happens to be residing in the united states, is a u.s. citizen, and tries to leave quarantine? All they would have to do is leave their cellphone at home.' And this will be used to push the overton window for 'city wide surveillance', which they're already doing in a major american city (detroit?), using solar powered drones that can film the entirety of the city twenty four hours straight. Thats not some tinfoil material people, thats public information and you can go look it up for yourself if you don't believe me. In five years time the overton window will have shifted sufficiently for them to "have a national conversation" about mandatory microchipping "only during a time of crisis." Meanwhile the U.S. will swap russia turkey for ukraine. China will allow the U.S. to bomb iran in exchange for the U.S. pulling support from say, Taiwan, or Hong Kong, something like that. Dow will go to pre-2016 highs I'm willing to bet. Bitcoin will break sub $1000, and fluctuate wildly before going stratospheric and then dumping just as quickly. Intelligence Agencies will gain authorization to "limit encryption technology for national security" as old CIA programs wind down. We will see a resurgence in oil prices and a year long collapse in housing prices before they start to rise again. Facial recognition technology will go mainstream, in the likes of fucking walmart and everywhere else. A hedgefund everyone knows, will lose its shirt. At least one major tech company will move HQ to Israel, or at least out of the U.S. A major u.s. city will prompt a panic when it declares insolvency. The U.S. will risk a credit downgrade and narrowly avoid it. A moderate sized earthquake will cause widespread and significant (but not catastrophic) damage to a city on the west coast and be dubbed "the little big one." There will be rumblings from yellowstone, but nothing will happen. Elon Musk will face further pushback and legal attacks directly against his personage, but will somewhat 'miraculously' weather them all. There will be significant prosecutions for the last several years of 'global fires', involving malfeasance. Harvey weinstein will die of 'natural causes' in prison and there will be as much uncertainty, lost evidence, and fuckery as before. In technology: Robotic surgery will become a mainstay, as will VR. Driverless trucks will see there first commercial shipments (with a driver behind the wheel for safety). Deep fakes will become completely indistinguishable to the naked eye. Voice synthesis will be 'almost' there. AI driven conversations will be almost indistinguishable from talking to a real person. We will see the first commercially available 'inexpensive' quantum based coprocessors or ad-ons, as well as generalized AI chips just starting to become mainstream or widely talked about. Life: The cost of many things will not have doubled, but gone up significantly none the less, say by 25-50%. We will see more persecutions for 'internet hate speech', and it will become a popular law to enforce on a local and state level. There will be more focus on community organization both through technology and offline through social organizations. The current funding of colleges and universities by the federal government will come to an end and bailouts will happen and this will be a widely polarizing event. Further crackdowns will follow on the militia movement, and the NRA will gradually fall out of favor, though its replacements will be only *marginally* more active in politics and horribly less effective. The reciprocity movement will continue to grow and then collapse seemingly out of nowhere. Gun sales will double even as background checks federally extend to two weeks. New databases will be created, based on customer ID, to track ammo sales, and while buying too much ammo will not be a 'crime', it may or may not prompt a visit by the alphabet boys. Taxes on gasoline vehicles will crater everywhere, as will gas taxes. Ethanol requirements will end. George Soros will be formally banned from the united states or 'sought for questioning', though nothing else will happen to him. He will pass away peacefully in the early summer of 2023. There will be multiple mergers of gas station chains. Rent controls will become a movement in many cities, the banks will fight like hell. These are my predictions for 2020-2025.