Weekend Wars: 2010 vs. 2011

Greetings, all. The new year is upon us and with it a slew of resolutions, ideas and plans that will somehow find it's way on to next year's list...

It seems that along with the requisite wind down time, this is also the time for pumping up expectations and dreams. Even though the past week or so is no way different from any other seven day stretch of the year...we fill it up with all of our shortcomings and failures and somehow find a way to spin them into hopes, dreams and solutions which will make everything bad from the past, good in the future.

Whether this is because of our own internal programming, the mass media pressurized feel good-ism of the holiday season or something far more complex, I will live for brighter bulbs to shine upon.

What I'm interested in today are your prognoses for the coming 12 months...

More importantly...

How will 2011 compare to 2010?

The long awaited rise of bond rates?

The myriad of potential QE2 fallout scenarios?

Back to $4 oil at the pump? And above $100 by the bbl?

Commodity bubbles blowing all over the place?

How many more flash crashes?

Which BB CEO gets his own Reality Show?

All this and more and for the biggest grizzly bears amongst us...perhaps... a world war?!

What do you guys expect in 2011?

Will markets, the economy and the average monkey be better off, worse or in the same place come 12 months from now?

The only thing I know for sure...as Bob Dylan said:

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind