The 5 Major Forces Coming Together to Make 2024 a Pivotal Year

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·Nov 8, 2024

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I think there are five major forces that repeated through history, and those are the debt money economic force, the internal conflict force, which is the big, uh, conflict in terms of the elections and so on, the external geopolitical force, which is the struggle for the control of the world order, the climate issue. Throughout history, climate has killed more people than anything, and Lord knows it's bigger for us now.

Um, and then, of course, technology, right? So we have all of these forces coming together in 2024. If we look at them individually and you put them together, they each affect each other, right? The presidential election will affect the markets, and then the markets will also affect the amount of money that we're spending on wars.

All of these forces will have an effect, and they are all coming together. I think 2024 will be a pivotal year because when we meet next year at this time, we will be able to look back on particularly the internal conflict force and particularly the, uh, geopolitical force to see if that's...

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The 5 Major Forces Coming Together to Make 2024 a Pivotal Year

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