Outrageous Predictions 2025

Our Outrageous Predictions are not exactly news and not exactly real – at least not yet. And while we don’t know which stories will drive the global economy in the coming year, our 2025 predictions, from Nvidia trouncing its Mag 7 peers to the fall of OPEC, from a bold bet on reflation in China to a great leap forward in biotech, are just as promised. Outrageous.

Trump 2.0 blows up the US dollar

As the new Trump administration turns the global financial system on its head with huge tariffs, the world scrambles to find alternatives to the dollar.

Nvidia balloons to twice the value of Apple

Armed with its revolutionary AI chips, could tech giant Nvidia grow to twice Apple's size and become the most profitable company of all time?

China unleashes CNY 50 trillion stimulus to reflate its economy

Having created history’s most epic debt bubble, China boldly bets that fiscal stimulus to the tune of trillions of CNY is the only answer.

First bio-printed human heart ushers in new era of longevity

It’s alive! Fusing bioengineering and medical science, scientists successfully bio-print a human heart, promising to extend the lives of millions.

Electrification boom ends OPEC

As electric vehicles become more affordable, could oil-rich OPEC become irrelevant in 2025 and find itself on the ash heap of history?

US imposes AI data centre tax as power prices run wild

With tech giants sucking up power supplies for their new AI data centres, utility bills skyrocket and an outraged public demands action.

A natural disaster bankrupts a large insurance company for the first time

After a year of wild weather in 2024, a catastrophic storm hits the US in 2025, sinking a large insurer that has underestimated climate change risks.

Sterling erases post-Brexit discount versus the euro

As Europe’s economy struggles, fresh fiscal policy winds are blowing in the UK, driving sterling back to levels versus the euro not seen since before Brexit.