This repo compares actual outcomes to predictions for 2023.

We predicted in 2023:

• Jack Dorsey returns as CEO of Twitter.

  • WRONG

• The Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement that explains impromptu emergency interest rate hike.

  • WRONG

• Google lays off 50% of its workforce.

  • WRONG: https://layoffs.fyi

• MacKenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs fund a new digital equity initiative, run by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The "AOC Foundation" uses its billion-dollar endowment to help new ideas reach audiences more effectively.

  • WRONG. The "wokeness fad" is over.

• YouTube buys radio station to broadcast top influencers on AM/FM radios.

  • WRONG

• National Public Radio (NPR) shuts down, after losing federal funding and underwriters.

  • WRONG

• JP Morgan ($JPM) acquires Bank of America for about $5 per share.

  • WRONG. Community banking crisis was addressed quickly, containing the contagion.

• NYU Professor Jeff Jarvis joins faculty at either Oxford or Cambridge.

  • WRONG

• Governors in western states deploy National Guard troops to quell armed skirmishes over water rights.

  • WRONG. Cooler heads prevailed and a common sense agreement was reached.

• Heavy dust storms accelerate the Phase 4 corrosion of power transmission steel lattice towers. Power outages and steel shortages follow.

  • WRONG. No dust bowl.

• After winning Super Bowl LVII with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tom Brady retires to become an avocado farmer.

  • Brady retired; he is now an analyst.

• Tom Brady announces the National Strategic Avocado Reserve.

  • WRONG

• Elon Musk buys New York Times.

  • WRONG. Missed opportunity for guaranteed daily active user audience.

• Autobahn-like highway tested in Texas.

  • WRONG.

• Kara Swisher wins both the Peabody Award and Pulitzer Prize in the same year.

  • WRONG. Despite an amazing year of journalism and entertainment.
  • Swisher hosted this podcast: 2023 Podcast of the Year: Succession Podcast.
  • Swisher broke many stories during the OpenAI tumult:
    • https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028

• NYU Professor Scott Galloway is named Time's Person of the Year.

  • WRONG. Feminism had a moment. Better luck next year.

• Maggie Haberman is appointed editor-in-chief of Washington Post.

  • WRONG.

• Warren Buffet retires.

  • WRONG.

• McDonald's ($MCD) is acquired by Asia-based private equity giant and is taken private. This gives time to restructure debt.

  • WRONG. However, lag effects of monetary policy still unseen.

• Burger King ($QRS) is acquired by Europe-based private equity firm. The firm spins off the Whopper into its own burger shop, like Shake Shack or In-N-Out burger.

  • WRONG. However, lag effects of monetary policy still unseen.

• Airbnb adds mixed-use retail space to rental inventory for pop-up stores.

  • WRONG

• Microsoft introduces next-generation police force protection gear, featuring the HoloLens as a situation-aware mixed reality headset.

  • WRONG.

• Amazon starts vertical farming fresh produce in New York City and Paris.

  • WRONG

• Arnold Schwarzenegger says "if you cut off one head, two more shall take its place" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time; the movie trailer alone shatters the all-time views record on YouTube.

  • WRONG

• Climate change forces many states to pass new tornado and flood insurance laws.

  • WRONG

• San Francisco Bay Area shut down by blizzard.

  • WRONG!