, but I've been saying for a while now and you can all verify it because you all heard me say it that the economy was going to surprise on the upside. Surprise on the upside.

And then all the year end stories are hey it's surprise on the upside, nobody saw it coming. Yeah yeah, somebody saw it coming. Do you know what was the basis for my prediction? The basis for my prediction is fake news. Fake news.

I predicted that the news was looking for all the bad stuff and so we would have an unusually bad idea of what the economy was going to do and that the reality was different from the fake news. But the professional economists apparently believed the fake news that everything was going to hell and then predicted based on that. And I said I always think the news is fake. I'll just go with the opposite of the news and it worked.

In fact if you had predicted the opposite of the news for everything you would have done pretty well. You would have said I don't think those vaccinations are working. You would have said I don't think Russia is necessarily going to conquer Ukraine in two weeks. Am I right? Yeah. You would have said that there's no way that China's economy is going to have a problem, they're just so strong. Am I right? You would have said that the hurricanes would be much worse, the sea level would be higher, the glaciers would be melted, we'd be having summer vacation in Antarctica. Right? Everything, absolutely everything. You probably would have said that the Middle East is heading toward peace. Literally everything would have been wrong if you followed the news.

So it looks like a magic trick if I get a prediction right and everybody else got it wrong. But try doing this. Open up the news on any platform, left or right. Pick whatever is the biggest story of the day and then make a public prediction that this will turn out to be fake. That's all. Just make a public prediction that this will turn out to be fake and then watch how you do.

Let's go back in time. I predict that the George Floyd thing will turn out to be that Chauvin did not murder him. Well that story is coming up. Yeah. Just bet against the news. You'll do fine.

A bunch of pro-Palestinian protester types have decided that a good place to protest would be at the World Trade Center, the newly rebuilt World Trade Center. So the pro-Palestinian people said you know what I think I'm going to go protest at the one place that will remove all empathy for my cause.

So if you're a classic American watching this, tell me how you felt when you found out that the Palestinians were protesting at the World Trade Center. Did you have the reaction I had? The empathy that I had for the Palestinians just disappeared. Now you could take a side and still have plenty of empathy for the victim