The Top 10 Potential Surprises for 2025
Stansberry Investor Hour
Stansberry Research
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan and Corey share their annual list of Top 10 Potential Surprises for the new year. As Dan clarifies from the outset, these are NOT predictions. They're simply things that would surprise investors in 2025 if they happened.
We won't spoil the surprises. But just to give you an idea, you'll hear about everything from bitcoin to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to a possible Stansberry Research mayor.
Even if Dan and Corey's surprises don't come about this year, this exercise is a reminder for investors to keep their minds open and to consider a broad range of outcomes.
Surprise No. 1: 1:51
Surprise No. 2: 5:43
Surprise No. 3: 10:59
Surprise No. 4: 17:11
Surprise No. 5: 21:25
Surprise No. 6: 26:06
Surprise No. 7: 29:28
Surprise No. 8: 33:04
Surprise No. 9: 36:26
Surprise No. 10: 41:31
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm Dan Ferris. I'm the editor of Extreme Value and the Ferris Report, both published by Stansberry Research. |
| 0:09.6 | And I'm Corey McLaughlin, editor of the Stansberry Daily Digest. Today we're going over our top 10 surprises for 2025. |
| 0:17.6 | That's right. These are 10 things that if they happened would surprise the daylights out of investors and a lot of other people in 2025. |
| 0:28.0 | They're not predictions. We're not saying this is going to happen. We're just saying this would surprise you if it happened in 2025 based on current conditions, of course. All right, let's dive in to the |
| 0:41.3 | top 10thensurizers. Yeah. For the last 25 years, Dan Ferris has predicted nearly every financial |
| 0:50.0 | and political crisis in America, including the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the peak of the |
| 0:55.4 | NASDAQ in 2021. Now he has a new major announcement about a crisis that could soon threaten the |
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| 1:48.3 | You got the first one? |
| 1:49.6 | I'll take the first one. |
| 1:59.1 | Number one is Bitcoin keeps hitting new all-time highs, then begins an 80% drop. |
| 2:05.2 | So, of course, this would surprise everybody because I checked this morning a Bitcoin had hit $106,000. Who knows where it'll be by the time you're listening to this. |
| 2:13.0 | And, you know, it's just gone straight up like a rocket chip and everybody thinks it can't fail. |
| 2:17.4 | So of course, it would by definition surprise people if it made more new all-time highs and |
| 2:23.5 | more and then Wham started its 80% drop, which would be pretty typical, right? |
| 2:29.4 | At 2025. |
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