Justin Fox, Columnist

The Best Predictions for 2025 Are Actually About 2024

As it always does, hindsight had a very good year.

December 31, 2024 at 6:30 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

And goodbye to 2024.
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What will 2025 be like? Who knows, really. “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future,” as physicist Niels Bohr or (more likely) some other Danish person once said. Several of our columnists are nonetheless brave enough to offer forecasts this New Year’s Eve — although, to be fair, the most daring ones are about 2024.