Please Don’t Remember These Predictions a Year From Now
2024 will mark the end of the free-lunch economy, unless falling mortgage rates and a strong stock market keep the hot meals coming.
At least there’s a free space.
Illustration: Jessica Karl
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The nice thing about making predictions in a newsletter is that this email will end up in your trash or spam folder in a matter of days, easily forgotten in an abyss of digital receipts and marketing ploys. Nobody is going to pull up this note to make sure all my predictions are right. But a century ago, they didn’t have it as lucky. People shared their predictions in print instead. And in 1924, people thought some pretty weird things would happen in 2024, according to these newspaper clippings from Paul Fairie, a Canadian researcher and author based in Calgary: