Scenarios for 2025

Worth five minutes of your time Personally, I’m quite bearish on China longer term (see fuller report on link). Imbalance of young men in the population, high youth unemployment, resource issues (especially water), and a real estate sector that smells like trouble to me. The economy is still rather too reliant on foreign exports if you ask me too and that could be restrained in 2025. None a serious issue with some reasonable growth (I used to suggest 8% but half that may suffice), but if economic growth fades away things could get rather interesting.

https://www.fidelity.com.au/sites/fidelity/assets/Annual-25-deck-v4.pdf

Nasty or nice?

There’s a new movie out called ‘Babygirl’ featuring Nicole Kidman as a CEO that has a sexual relationship with an intern at her firm. Feminism or double standards? How would that play out in the media if the roles were reversed? Or the attached. Same question. Funny or double standards? Or is the latter perhaps an example of misandry? Weak signal or just another example of counter-trends?

2025

Greetings to my loyal and lovely readers and welcome to 2025.

Spotted this the other day. The article goes on to say that Jung said that the way in which a society talks about UFOs (and I might add to this sci-fi generally)` provides insights into our deepest fantasies. On a related note, here’s a preduction. The further we erect monuments to technology and workship at the alter of AI, the more we will believe in illogical, mystical and spiritual forces. There is an emerging desire for magic in the age of math.