End of the year predictions about the future have been around at least since the days of Nostradamus, but what about past predictions? There were plenty of predictions that electing Donald Trump the first time and then reelecting him would cause economic Armageddon.

Democrats and their media mouthpieces have consistently predicted monetary collapse from President Trump's policies. This year alone, editorials in The New York Times, the Washington Post and most "reporting" by mainstream networks have claimed with absolute certainty that the president's tariffs would tank the economy.

Now comes a column in the Washington Post by author and investor Zachary Karabell, who writes "The Edgy Optimist" on Substack. He says that after Trump's tariff announcement last April 2, "Most observers predicted sharply higher inflation, domestic and global economic contraction, and widespread spikes in unemployment. None of that........

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