"2018 & Future Trends"

While the rest of us were tracking the latest Trump tweets, Clif High of Half Past Human was busy mining internet data.

The reason? "Predictive Linguistics", of course, a system he uses to sort through internet data to predict the future.

In an interview with Greg Hunter of USA Watchdog.com, High claims good times are coming and we're heading for what he calls "The Soaring Twenties".

"There is a really interesting set of data that's been building for some time," Clif High explained, "and we have had this big flush of long-term data, which is why I decided to do this report that is going five years out."

High reports the coming years will see "a combination of an economic boon and a technological boom that are feeding off each other.

The spark? Trump's tax redo. "It's not a reform, it's a total redo. The money coming back is going to create a resurgence. A new kind of American is going to be rising out of this resurgence. We are going to be in a new great generation forming, not the millennials, but the ones that are behind them."

Sounds peachy, doesn't it? But before you get all verklempt, check this out:

David Stockman, former White House Budget Director under Reagan (also a USA Watchdog guest) predicts the exact opposite.

"I think it's (the Trump tax cuts) going to be a fiscal calamity of Biblical proportions.

Meanwhile, The New York Post wastes space on confusing psychic predictions.

Hmmmm...kind of proves our point. Want predictions of Biblical proportions? Try reading the Bible.

A wise man once said: "People recognize some thing's going to happen, and they'd better get ready." -- Tim LaHaye

"Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7)

News:

• AP: Trump predicts GOP and Dems will agree on health care plan; "The very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate has been terminated as part of our Tax Cut Bill, which essentially repeals (over time) Obamacare."
• Newsweek: Stephen Hawking predicts we only have 100 years left on earth. Climate change, asteroid strikes, epidemics and over population cited.
• Daily Reckoning Australia: "The U.S. To Attack N. Korea Before March" predicts financial guru James Rickards, claiming the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency told him.