My Thoughts & Predictions for 2027 | John Templeton
I wanted to write this post to help people position themselves for what is about to come.
I spend a lot of time researching, contemplating and formulating ideas to help myself grow, evolve and flourish. Part of that includes staying up to date with geopolitics.
I don’t actually worry about current events the way most people do. My interest isn’t so much in what’s happening right now. I’m more interested in predicting what happens next, based on sound knowledge, so I can best position myself and those close to me to flourish and thrive.
This is how I’ve built wealth in the past.
It’s how I’ve built a life with an abundance of free time.
By understanding the patterns that play out, and then putting myself on the correct side of those patterns.
If you know my work, you’ll know that I believe the wisest people live in alignment with the truth, and that is exactly what this is about, living in alignment with the natural patterns found within nature.
With that said, this post is my prediction for the coming years, and you can take from it what you will.
The first two main predictions I’m going to make are:
The US economy is going to collapse.
World War 3 will officially begin.
These two things I am certain of. What I’m not certain of is exactly when they will happen—nobody knows that—but I believe they will happen within the next 1–3 years.
The next thing most people will want to know is why this will happen, how it will happen and what you can do about it. So that’s what we’ll talk about now.
These predictions haven’t been plucked out of thin air, nor have they come from simply watching the news. They’ve been constructed through research and contemplation across various fields.
Think of it like a GPS system. If you want an accurate location, you need to find as many satellites as possible that all point to the same place.
It’s the same with predictions. To make an accurate prediction, you need to find evidence from different directions that points towards the same conclusion. With all of the evidence I’ve found, it points towards these two.
So why is the US economy going to collapse soon?
All empires and currencies go through phases of expansion and contraction. No currency or empire on Earth has ever avoided it, and they can’t because it is a universal law. It’s physics.
Wealth will always become concentrated in the hands of the few, leaving the masses living in conditions that reflect a form of poverty or slavery for that generation. When the wealth gap reaches extremes, the people revolt and a country enters civil war.
This is where America is now. The wealth gap is large, most people are in debt, and the political divide is reaching peak polarity. In terms of the fulfilment of its people, it’s an unhealthy country.
Now for the economics.
The US is currently in 40 trillion dollars’ worth of debt, and they’re not in a position to pay it off. Their bond market is cracking, as the government itself is borrowing money—going further into debt—in order to buy its own bonds.
Countries outside of the USA that would usually buy US bonds are no longer buying them in the volume they once did because they can see what’s coming and no longer want to be holding US debt. Many of those countries are turning to gold instead.
Another way America has held its bond market up is through what’s called the yen carry trade. Essentially, Japanese yen is cheap to borrow, so America could access cheap money to service its own debt—borrowing at a lower interest rate in order to pay back debt at a higher interest rate. But the yen is also in decline, so Japan has recently raised interest rates, meaning the yen carry trade is about to come undone.
When a country wants to sell more bonds, it will usually increase the yields (interest rates). But if America increases interest rates, it will cause the market to collapse.
Why?
Because America and Americans are in debt, and when interest rates rise, people will no longer be able to service those debts. When that happens, the whole thing comes crashing down.
As people can no longer afford their homes and lifestyles, they spend less money. When people spend less money, prices come down (deflation based on supply and demand), and when that happens, house prices crash, causing even more people to lose their wealth. It becomes a snowball effect that eventually leads into a depression.
The way the government tries to stop this from occurring is by printing more money, but doing this will simply cause greater inflation. More money in the system means more people spend, and the more people spend, the more prices go up (inflation based on supply and demand).
The problem is, people are already stretched financially. Very few people could cope if prices continue to rise, so more inflation simply speeds up the revolution.
The US government is stuck, and there isn’t much they can realistically do about it. The only legitimate way out is through greater national growth and productivity, which would generate more tax revenue to help balance the system and pay off the national debt.
The US govt is hoping that AI will create this productivity boom. However, I believe it will do the complete opposite. People are losing jobs to AI, and AI companies are in billions of dollars of debt. The US stock market is one big bubble with no safety net or rescue vessel.
SIDE NOTE: The US govt will try to sell more bonds through a digital currency like Tether. Essentially, through a digital currency, people all over the world could hold US dollars, and for each US dollar a person holds, the digital currency company would have to buy a US bond of equal value. In the long run, this won’t work, but it might keep the bubble alive a little longer.
SIDE NOTE TO THE SIDE NOTE: The Clarity Act didn’t get passed into law, so even this strategy is looking shaky.
Now, that is physically what’s happening, and there is no avoiding it.
The US economy will collapse.
The stock market will crash.
The housing market will crash.
It’s inevitable.
This also aligns with the 18.6-year property cycle, which suggests a collapse between late 2026 and around late 2027. The 18.6-year property cycle is actually based on the 18.6-year lunar cycle, and if you understand how time is measured, you’ll realise the power of astrology. As the saying goes, “millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do”.
It also aligns with generational cycles, which rise and fall over the span of a human life—roughly 80 years. The last cycle started after World War 2 and is set to end around 2028. Each generational cycle ends with crisis and conflict.
There is more than enough evidence to suggest that, economically, the US is on its final legs and in decline.
Even Xi Jinping reminded Donald Trump about the Thucydides Trap—the trap of a nation in decline trying to hold onto its position as number one on the podium. Xi Jinping actually mentioned it publicly, twice, right to Donald Trump’s face.
In ancient Greece, when Sparta was in decline and Athens was on the rise, Sparta decided to try and hold onto power despite universal principles showing its decline was imminent. Ultimately, Sparta lost its power and became a regional city.
This leads us into World War 3.
The US currently has the most powerful military on Earth, and another way for America to prosper is to grow itself economically. Hence, overthrowing Maduro in Venezuela and gaining access to Venezuelan oil. They are setting their sights on Cuba next.
Trump has openly said he would like to make Canada the 51st state of the USA. By colonising other populations, the USA could grow its way out of decline, and this is what Trump is trying to do.
Of course, with every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. No country wants to lose its sovereignty, so the inevitable conclusion is conflict.
Again, this is classic late-empire behaviour.
The problem is that when a country is in poor financial condition, it can no longer finance its wars. It is for this reason that I believe the USA will lose the coming war. They might “win” in the short run, but on the other side there will be nothing left and, most importantly, the will of the American people will be broken.
If you’ve read my book or know my work, the key to life is to live in alignment with the truth, and America is NOT on the side of truth. They are ignoring truth in an attempt to keep their false illusion of hegemony alive.
America might win the physical war, but they will lose the spiritual one, and when the spirit is dead, the physical decomposes quite quickly.
We can see the start of WW3 already.
Russia and Ukraine isn’t an isolated war. Iran, the US and Israel is not an isolated war. The world is already involved. The recent United Nations General Assembly showed you where each nation currently sits on the battlefield.
Western Europe has sided with Ukraine. North Korea, China and Iran are sided with Russia. Most of Africa opposes the USA and Israel. Most of the world, in fact, is opposed to the way the USA and Israel are behaving, including the Asian countries.
China has openly said it wants to take over Taiwan by the end of the decade, and places like Australia are tasked with defending Taiwan. I don't know if this will happen though, because the task of invading a country through the ocean, especially with drone warfare now dominating, is a huge risk with the potential for massive loss.
The rules of warfare are being broken daily. War crimes everywhere, and it appears the criminals don’t actually care. The International Criminal Court has an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, yet he still travels around freely.
America is really the country that has policed the globe since WW2, but now the police have turned against the rest of the world to save themselves.
Marco Rubio openly said at the UNGA that America will put itself and its own needs BEFORE the rest of the world. Essentially saying: we’re going to dominate, rule and conquer in order to survive, no matter who or what gets in our way.
War is inevitable, and it’s going to affect the entire globe.
So how is this going to unfold?
Honestly, I don’t know exactly, but it will go something like this.
The US bond market will run out of buyers unless they raise interest rates. So they will raise interest rates, which will cause the stock market (AI bubble) and housing market to collapse.
There will be little things that happen inside of that, and I don’t know the exact order, but that is what will happen. Before that happens, they might lower interest rates or print money, which will cause inflation, and then try to curb that inflation by raising rates.
But either way, it’s the raising of the rates that will cause the dominoes to start falling.
In regard to World War 3, how will that unfold…?
Again, I don’t know exactly which chess pieces will move first, but I can be sure that it’s only going to get worse from here.
Russia and Ukraine will keep raising the stakes, moving from military combat to striking civilian targets. Eastern Europe will then get involved overtly (they already are covertly), causing European countries to mobilise their populations for war, which will eventually require conscription.
At first, it will be volunteers who get paid. Then it will be forced mobilisation.
In the Middle East, things will also keep climbing up the escalation ladder. The US will need to deploy ground troops, which is when you know things are really kicking off.
Israel is going to keep conquering land—not just Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, but also Egypt, Jordan and eventually Turkey. Israel is taking part in a spiritual crusade to attempt to attain the promised land, and many countries lay in the way of that from happening.
Russia and China are currently helping Iran with things like satellite data, but also weapons being delivered through the Caspian Sea. China has openly said that if Israel used nuclear weapons against Iran, they would wipe Israel off the map.
I believe China is playing it smart, waiting for the world to get locked down in conflict before they decide to make their moves and potentially invade Taiwan. I don’t think this will be the flashpoint. I think it will be a side project.
The main flashpoint will be the USA overtly putting troops into Iran.
Right, so what can we do about it?
Well, we can’t stop it. It’s a natural phenomenon once polarity reaches extremes. Everything in existence eventually returns to the mean, and this whole escapade is the US economy and the balance of global power returning to the mean. It can't not happen.
There will be conflict, chaos and death. To what scale, I don’t know.
Will it go nuclear?
I hope not, but there is a high potential that it will.
The way to avoid nuclear war would be for the USA to accept they are no longer the hegemony, for Israel to let go of their ambitions to bring about their false eschatological destiny, and for Europe to let go of western Ukraine.
Will those things happen?
No, not willingly, which suggests to me that nuclear warheads will be used. Again, I hope I’m wrong and people come to their senses before that happens. Russia has also said they will use all tools in their arsenal to achieve their objectives, including nuclear warheads.
I also believe—and you can call this another prediction if you will—that Asia will rule the next millennia, most likely led by China.
A lot of Asia is going through a form of gentrification and is currently in an expansion and growth phase, so it would be natural for them to continue growing as the West gradually declines. I could be wrong, but I do see that beginning to start. This might take decades to show itself, but the trend is already starting to take shape.
So what can we actually do? What is within our control?
Honestly, aside from mentally, physically and financially preparing yourself for what is coming, just keep learning and growing — because that is the ultimate purpose of life. Life is a journey of growth, and every day, regardless of what is happening is an opportunity to face your fears and grow.
Those who are prepared will turn this crisis into an opportunity across all fronts. Mentally, physically, financially and spiritually.
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Wisdom and Mastery,
John
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