Looking back at my predictions

Looking back at my predictions

Posted by texnofobix on Tue, 2008-10-21 18:28

Predictions 2006-2008

* Prices increase signifcantly
* Stock market dips
* Terrorist attack on US again
* min wage increase
* unemployment up
* illegal immigration is legalized
* (national cap on industrial carbon dioxide emissions) hurts manufacturing even more

http://blog.texnofobix.net/104507.html

Let's see how well I've done so far...

*Prices increase (no research proving or disproving) n/a

*Stock market dips happened
-Dow Jones Industrial Average Index -153.00 (-1.65%)
-NASDAQ Composite Index -49.92 (-2.82%)
-S&P 500 Index -20.65 (-2.10%)
[2006-now]

* Terrorist attack on US again didn't happen
- although two embassies and two military bases were attacked.

* Minimum wage increase happened
http://www.laborlawcenter.com/t-federal-minimum-wage.aspx

* unemployment up happened
-Was 4.5% in November and now (September) 6.1%

* illegal immigration is legalized didn't happen
-it failed

* (national cap on industrial carbon dioxide emissions) hurts manufacturing even more n/a

3 correct, 2 wrong, and 2 unknowns.