First, I think 2013 will be a VOLATILE YEAR. Why?1) The Middle East-Syria/ Assad will FALL. Will it be in the next 3 months? One article I just read said..."Feb or March"-Ah, but WHO will take his place? I assume it will be like Egypt.....we WON'T GET WHO WE'd LIKE!!-And, who gets control of Syria's chemicals for bombs? And will Assad USE them on his people or on Israel before he loses power?-So, Iran will LOSE it's control in Syria.....the same article suggests since Iran is losing Syria and 1/2 of it's oil revenues, MAYBE they will HAVE TO give in to limitations on their nuclear program. (IRAN WILL NEVER give in to this!! Evenif they say they will, they WON'T. I have an article on my "preditions" board at home from 2005 that says this!!)-Then you have Egypt......with all of it's troubles...... the same article said "tanks could end up bakc in Tahrir Sqaure this year....... and, Morsi speaking against IsraelAnd, Netenyahu's promise in Sept at the United Nations - that Iran CANNOT cross the "red line" on their nuclear program. THAT deadline seems to be coming up by JUNE this year......Will the US....will Israel.....will BOTH go after Iran with a pre-emptive strike by June?(remember....NOTHING ever happens EARLY on BIG events like this....they ALWAYS happen LATER than original expectations. Remember, MOST World Leaders have been expecting Israel to GO AFTER Iran for many years now!! Were they WRONG? Or just EARLY?)2) Second: the US Fiscal Cliff...and once again....THEY HAVE KICKED THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD ANOTHER COUPLE MONTHS....UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And the Fed Reserve Bank is STILL BUYING UP US bonds........And.....and....and......NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing has been FIXED!!!!!! NOTHING!!!Between the MIDDLE EAST and the US/European and World Economy....and nothing getting fixed, 2013 SHOULD BE A MESS! (and...the markets rally BIG today. GO FIGURE!! LOL!)TICK TOCK........ UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YFIC,RandyPS...I sent "story ideas" on this Federal Reserve Bank "rebating" interest BACK to the US Treasury on $4 Trillion of US debt that they now own to NBC, CBS, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, 60 Minutes.......etc, etc. We'll see if this can become a story for discussion in the National Dialogue this year. (Really Randy.....? You think you can CHANGE the World? --Probably not....but I can say then that I DID try!!)I STILL THINK THAT THIS STORY IS:1) HUGE....2) A fact "hiding in plain sight" ....that those who KNOW.....don't want to talk about it. and those who do NOT KNOW......unfortunately, won't care.3) THIS IS TRULY "ENRON Creative Accounting" that CANNOT BE good in the long run. In the short run though, even I THINK IT IS A GENIOUS MOVE. LOL!!4)That Geitner and Bernanke think this is a move that SOLVES ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT/S AND ECONOMY'S PROBLEMS. (In their heart, do they REALLY THINK that one day, the economy will make a big enough recovery to allow a BIG ENOUGH US BUDGET SURPLUS and the US Government will get it's act together to actually PAY OFF the $4 Trilliion the Federal Reserve owns PLUS the otehr $12 Trillion that everybody else owns.....from China to everyone else?BUT...ONE DAY........THIS FACT WILL BLOW UP THE MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD, in part because ALL the top G7 Nations are DOING THE SAME THING!!!!!TICK TOCK....BOOM!