The Economist's Rothschild Prediction for 2019. Decryption option

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The British magazine came out with a new rebus prophecy for the next year. Every year the magazine comes out with a cover that, according to the unofficial version, is an economic prophecy for the next year. The publication belongs to the Rothschild clan, which is considered the main puppeteer of the world "behind the scenes", so attention to the magazine's covers is close.

This year, the first page is designed in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, but with a modern twist. The Renaissance style features Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Mathatma Gandhi and Angelina Jolie.

Change of eras

In the center of the composition is the famous Vitruvian man Leonardo da Vinci, on whom the artist put on either a night vision device or virtual reality glasses. In conjunction with the fact that almost all the inscriptions on the cover are made in a mirror image, as Leonardo liked to do, it becomes clear that everything in our world looks quite different from what it seems at first glance. And experts saw in the general picture the symbols of the change of eras.

- The main key to remembering is drawings in the style of Leonardo da Vinci, which should be understood as the end of the “renaissance” era and the transition to the changeable and unstable period of the “baroque”, when the whole and reasonable idea of the world and the understanding of man as a rational being disintegrate, - explains analyst Alexey Kushch. - From now on, in the words of Pascal, a person realizes himself "something in between everything and nothing", "one who catches only the appearance of phenomena, but is unable to understand either their beginning or their end."

About geopolitics

Almost all experts note that The Economist predicts global changes in the roles of states in the world of the future.

“Globally, it is the strengthening of Western civilization and the cooling of the potential of the“eastern”empires, such as China, the Russian Federation and the Arab countries,” Aleksey Kushch is sure. - Trump's profile is as a hint of the possibility of impeachment proceedings, the four horsemen of the apocalypse against the background of Putin as an expectation of a global shake-up due to the political cycle in Ukraine.

Pinocchio with a long nose looks like a symbol of information wars, total simulacra and lies.

The English Bulldog in North America - as a symbol that Great Britain will finally "sail away" from the EU.

This entire scene is philosophically observed by Walt Whitman, America's greatest poet and author of the epic Leaves of Grass series, in which he praised America's nascent power. Although in this case, a new allusion is born, from the poet's poem dedicated to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln “Oh, captain! My captain ":" Wake up, father! My hand lies on your forehead, And you fell asleep on the deck, As if in a dead dream. " I think this is an eloquent symbol of the "dying" American dream …

But some experts see the picture differently, paying attention to completely different details.

- The portrait of US President Trump looks to the east, the portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin looks to the west, between them is the symbol of China - a panda, says financial analyst at Teletrade Bogdan Pisarenko. - A little to the side, to the left and below we see an English bulldog, above a panda and Putin - a Japanese shrine, Mount Fujiyama.

According to him, the rate of growth of the world economy as a whole will depend on how the trade conflict between the United States and China is resolved, and whether it is resolved at all. Preliminary agreements at the G-20 summit in Argentina on the introduction of a temporary ceasefire for 90 days have not yet inspired financial markets. Everyone is waiting for more concrete solutions.

“The likelihood of signing a peace treaty between Russia and Japan for the first time since the end of the Second World War is linked to the transfer of the two islands,” Bogdan Pisarenko continues. - Perhaps The Economist believes that the agreement will be signed and this fact will certainly go down in history. But the signing of the treaty will not pass by the United States, as evidenced by President Trump's glance.

The problem of Britain leaving the European Union closes the picture. The mood of the British Bulldog is clearly sad, but the bulldog is famous precisely for the fact that it does not release its prey from its teeth. It is clear that the UK government, with or without Theresa May, will see it through. What it will be - we will find out after March 30, 2019, when the Brexit deadline comes.

About economy

Experts also saw economic symbols in different ways. Although the theme of the global financial crisis was found in the puzzle by all without exception.

“The electric car is striking as a symbol of the systemic change in demand for traditional fuel,” says Aleksey Kushch.

- Battleship - as a signal of a possible crisis in Brazil, which will activate destruction in the segment of developing countries, an elephant with arrow tusks - as a signal that the emphasis in the third world will shift from China to India.

And the panda in Greenland only confirms this - China will be very "cold" financially. The threat of a credit crisis is growing, and the slowdown in the Chinese economy is closer than ever.

The figure of a man in glasses with cannabis leaves and an iPhone in his hands is a symbol of the total emancipation of “sign” from “thing” according to Baudrillard's theory (theory of consumption - ed.). Everything becomes simulative, even labor. There will be a global fusion of Freudianism and Marxism, the impossibility of representative democracy in the conditions of the dominance of simulacra.

Well, Fujiyama is at the top of the cover as a hint that only Japan in this paradigm will preserve its internal integrity.

It seems that other analysts also see the next difficult year.

“In the center of the cover is a version of The Economist's Vitruvian Man, holding the symbols of the modern era,” says Bohdan Pisarenko. - These are digital technologies. I think cannabis symbolizes the expansion of the list of countries in which the sale of marijuana will be legalized. And the scales with a declining bowl stand out vividly - as a hint of a possible financial crisis. There has been a lot of talk about this lately, and this is indicated by a number of signs that have appeared on the market for the first time since 2007.

According to him, we are talking about the overheating of the American stock market and the unrestrained growth of the American government debt.

“Should at least one of these segments collapse, an avalanche of government defaults can cover the whole world,” Bogdan Pisarenko sums up. - It is not for nothing that under the left hand of the Vitruvian man are two boxes with the flags of developing countries - as a hint of those who may suffer in the first place. But let's hope that the negative scenario will not be realized and the company from the top picture will find the right way to solve world problems.

The refugee crisis and the flight to the moon

But it is not all that bad. In a global sense, new horizons are opening up for humanity.

“I think that the authors are hinting at space flights to the Moon and Mars, as well as new horizons for space exploration,” Andrey Shevchishin, a senior analyst at FOREX CLUB Group, told his vision. - Also, an increasing role is given to cannabis and its legalization, as happened in Canada. The stork is a reference to the birth of the first children from a test tube with an altered gene code.

By the way, the DNA theme was played on one of the hands of the Vitruvian Man. But a stork with a barcode may mean that the DNA replacement service will become paid and will be available only to wealthy people at first.

- I do not exclude that the four horsemen of the apocalypse can mean natural disasters, - continues Andrey Shevchishin. - A smartphone with a QR code is seen in the hands of the main figure. In fact, this speaks of even greater mobilization. The face with metrics in the upper right corner are face recognition and tracking technologies that will be massively introduced in 2019. Scales with people in hand, probably, symbolize the migration crisis, the division of people into "good" and "bad".

The woman below, in which Angelina Jolie is guessed, is another hint of refugees.

Struggle for women's rights

Another trend that analysts were silent about, but we could not get around, may be the hashtag #MeToo, which instantly spread on social media in October 2017 after accusations of sexual harassment by film producer Harvey Weinstein. In fact, this may indicate an ever-increasing intolerance of society towards sexual violence, especially against women. Interestingly, this hashtag is the only inscription that is spelled correctly and not mirrored.

As if in confirmation of this, below is a self-portrait of the 17th century artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who was raped as a teenager by an art teacher. In court, she was subjected to humiliating physical examination and torture to prove the truth of her statements before her abuser was convicted. In the modern world, Gentileschi has become a symbol of the fight for the rights of women who have been sexually abused, she is even called the #MeToo symbol.

By the way, the self-portrait from the cover of The Economist was sold for a record for Gentileschi's works of 2, 18 million dollars. Perhaps the authors are hinting that someone will make good money on the struggle for women's rights next year.