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1. More than 50% of the existing,large PBM companies will be acquired by pharmacies or insurers 2. Saudi Arabia will experience a coup, but it will be unsucces
by IG_Semmelweiss 7y ago
1. More than 50% of the existing,large PBM companies will be acquired by pharmacies or insurers
2. Saudi Arabia will experience a coup, but it will be unsuccessful.
3. At least one of the large non-mobile telecoms in the US, will be acquired, taken private, or go bankrupt.
4. Venezuela will have a peaceful transition into a new government
5. Amazon will come inder tremendous pressure to break up, after at least 1 of their product listings is directly traced back to consumer deaths due to poisoning, malfunction, or misuse. This will lead to changes (wider) liability regulations / court decisions affecting online platforms across at least 5 US states, and spark a wider discussion that threaten to spillover over content companies like FB.
6. The plastic straw and the plastic bag will mostly dissappear
7. 1 country in the world will make the US dollar or the Euro their new official currency.
8. The tv (and potentially other) remote control will increasingly be complemented/replaced by competing remote apps.
9. Brands (Kellogg etc) in the cereals space in the US will see at least 1 M&A or bankrupcty.
10. Same as (9), but in the sweets space (Hershey's etc).
11. A new credit card issuer will enter the US market (brex?)
12. A new (nonwinner) nation will win the soccer world cup
13. Snap, Dropbox/Box or Kayak/Priceline will dissappear/be acquired.
14. Hezbollah will dissappear as a political party in lebanon, but the armed wing will continue in some fashion
15. Signal will accelerate market share acquisition and in fact emerge as a viable US competitor to whatsapp.
16. A new company will out of nowhere become a huge by making road travel more pleasant
17. We will continue not to find traces of life outside our planet (hope im wrong here)
18. Coffee machines will start to noticeably dissappear from the workplace in favor of tea.
19. Medicare age will be raised
2o. The boring company will actually be a success, like space X. Tesla will be ok but solar will continue to limp along.
21. Changes in the US student loan program will send many 4 year colleges into a financial tailspin. Changes will limit loans in many ways or ask colleges to directly shoulder some of the risk.
22. Netflix, GNC/Vita, and Nike market cap will be reduced by 25%
23. The stetoscope will finally dissappear
24. Diamonds will lose market share by 20%, replaced by simpler wedding bands
25. The MLB will see a contraction in one of the following: total games played per season, total teams in league, total tv air time
26. The number of hospitals in the US will grow below the population growth %
27. Violation tickets will cease to be paper records in most US metros.
28. A new budget airline (probably Azul) will expand in latin america and bring down airfares in the region by 20%.
29. Cell phones will have ubiquitous pediatric toolkids for parents sold: thermometer,oxigenation,etc will all be included and easy to operate.
30. I will read this post in 10 years!