[quote=TheBreeze]I would rather bet against you on something that is more easily measured. How about we bet that there are no news stories of grocery stores in California running out of food due to supply chain disruptions that are a result of economic catastrophe between now and the end of 2010? Note that this would exclude instances where grocery stores go out of business or run out of food due to natural disasters. It would also exclude instances where grocery stores place limits on how much product people can buy, like they did with rice last year. In the penultimate outcome, there is a news story where I (TheBreeze) and some other hapless individual (or individuals) literally brawl over the last can of chicken soup at Ralph’s.
If I win, you donate $50 to smiletrain.org. I will donate $50 to the cause of your choice if you win.
By the way, you are sounding awfully, awfully cocky. Perhaps your predictive powers are as great as you think. Or perhaps you are due for a comeuppance. Let’s hope you can withdraw your fiat if TSHTF while you are on one of your trips:
Okay, I’ll take your bet, Breezy. Decmber 31, 2010 is the date by which everything you set forth must occur, right? I’m not cocky, but I am fairly confident — given the pace at which events are currently unfolding — that I will win this one. If not, then good times for all of us!
And yes, the Ukraine is looking awfully ugly now. Much unrest all over Eastern Europe, and soon to come to the U.S…
