Predictions

Rather than being the year of the U.S. presidential election or the London Olympics, 2012 has been hijacked by a small group of strange people who seem

These toxic companies have bombed in 2011, and they're likely to be bought out or fall off the face of the earth entirely in the next 365 days.

The prospects for Europe have rarely been bleaker and with the markets now putting pressure on France, DOMINIC SANDBROOK writes in an disturbing essay for the Mail.

In The Wall Street Jouranl, Karl Rove predicts that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or both will leave the Democratic leadership by year's end.

12 presentations with predictions What will change in 2012? What will stay the same? Here are 12 presentations that take a look at where we’ve all been in

12 Themes for 2012 from futurist Ross Dawson and future think-tank Future Exploration Network

Republican diners haven't yet picked their entree, but they've narrowed it down to the steak or the fish. Still, just as interesting as their main course will be their side selection: Will they go for a drab salad, or something more exciting? Maybe a spicy Rice dish?

A very clear view from Rancho Mirage.

There's a birth of a new geography: "megapolitans," areas that encompass cities and counties linked through man-made and natural connections.

Move over, Desert Swarm. Here comes the Desert Shred.

So many Americans are living past 85 that it may push the designation of ‘oldest of the old’ from 85-plus to 90-plus, according to a Census Bureau report released on Thursday.

Read 'Happy New Year? Stocks Set to Plunge in 2012' from our blog Breakout on Yahoo! Finance. Follow us on Facebook! A week ago, when the initial jobless claims number had just declined for 2 straight weeks, I half-jokingly said that some investor out there would probably grab onto this paltry coincidence and try to turn it into the start of a trend. Well, it's happened again, and this time there are [...]

St. Louis Cardinals look ready to best Braves in playoff chase

Read 'What history says about President Obama's approval rating now' on Yahoo! News. One of the most popular ways for pundits to evaluate the president’s chances of reelection is to offer historical comparisons of presidential poll numbers (He’s doing worse than Reagan! But better than Carter! Whatever that means!).

PALM BEACH, Fla. Even though he's not running for the presidency and may not even be eligible for the office, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida will someday hold the highest office in the land, according to talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. Sen. Marco Ru...

The hype over Hurricane Irene is overblown, predicts the CEO of Advanced Forecasting Corporation.

Researchers claim that an alien race could attack us due to our harmful effect on the environment.

Rich Lowry writes on NRO: Texas governor Rick Perry is about to stride purposefully through every cultural tripwire in the country. He may not become as despised as Sarah Palin, but that’s because he’ll never be a pro-life woman — the accelerant for the conflagration of Palin-hatred. The disdain for Perry won’t burn as hot, but . . .

USA TODAY's survey of economists finds deepening pessimism and lowered expectations for 2012.

Tigers' talent will give the team a chance at double-digit wins.

Read 'Goldman says QE3 likely after dovish Fed statement' on Yahoo! News. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday a third round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve is likely after the U.S. Federal Reserve promised to keep rates at extraordinarily low levels for at least two more years.

Although we may be on the brink of another crash, the nature of any such crash would be remarkably different from that of 2008.

The super-rich get richer, bigger market crashes and class warfare — that’s what you can expect from “America’s Worst Decade,” writes Paul B. Farrell.

ESPN analyst likes Alabama to win SEC; "great year" for Auburn would be a bowl game

Generic competition will decimate sales of the brand-name drugs and slash the cost to patients and companies that provide health benefits. Generic versions of big-selling drugs for blood pressure, asthma, diabetes, depression, high triglycerides, HIV and bipolar disorder also are coming by then. The flood of generics will continue for the next decade or so, as about 120 brand-name prescription drugs lose market exclusivity, according to prescription benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc. Dr. Nieca Goldberg, director of The Women's Heart Program at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, worries about patients who are skipping checkups and halving pills to pare costs. Even people with private insurance or Medicare aren't filling all their prescriptions, studies show, particularly for cancer drugs with copays of hundreds of dollars or more. Average copayments last year were $6 for generics, compared with $24 for brand-name drugs given preferred status by an insurer and $35 fo

Stanford economist Michael Boskin writes in The Wall Street Journal that those who argue that the U.S. economy can bear higher pre-Reagan tax rates are wrong—those rates applied to a much smaller fraction of taxpayers than what we're headed for without spending cuts.

After a decline this summer, crude's price is likely to rise sharply by next spring. It will hurt the economy, but it won't be a disaster.

In The Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove writes that even a small drop in the share of black voters would wipe out his winning margin in North Carolina.

While oil has fallen sharply since May, gasoline is down just about 10 percent and it is not likely to drop below $3 any time soon.

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US scientists say the familiar sunspot cycle seems to be entering a hibernation period unseen since the 17th century, a pattern that could have a slight cooling effect on global temperatures.

Obamanomics is deteriorating even faster than
expected.

Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said the Federal Reserve is unlikely to do a third round of quantitative easing even with the economy adding fewer jobs than forecast.

Wall Street is having a hard time figuring out what to do now that the US economy appears to be sputtering and yields are so low, Peter Yastrow, market strategist for Yastrow Origer, told CNBC.

The last month has been a horror show for the U.S. economy, with economic data falling off a cliff, according to Mike Riddell, a fund manager at M&G Investments in London.

The La Nina that has driven the extreme weather since winter is over, but the lingering effects mean no summer for the Great Lakes, drought conditions expanding out of the southern Plains, and flooding expanding into the Midwest from the Mississippi Valley.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Memorial Day has come and gone, signaling the start of the summer -- and the summer driving season. After the wild

The forecast for the summer driving season: Hit the road early. Not to beat the traffic, but to beat the higher gas prices expected in mid-July.

In the hot-house world of presidential politics, these are the best of times for Democrats and the worst of times for Republicans. Still, the times that count come in November of 2012, a year and a half away — an eternity in politics. Democrats are

Democrats aim at a Republican weak spot.

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