QUESTION: Marty, I just have to complement you on Socrates. You created the only unbiased forecast of geopolitical issues and the economy with no partisan spin. Do you see unemployment in france continuing to rise in 2028?
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ANSWER: Yes. Moving to war will help. I suppose the climate activists are claiming all the fires in Europe are the result of Climate Change – not protests. There are serious questions concerning France and that the government desperately needs a return to strong growth if it is to contain its rapidly rising debts. This does NOT seem likely into 2028. France has too much socialistic expectations, and it has let in such a vast amount of non-French migrants, they failed to look at history whereas rising unemployment with net-immigration leads to civil unrest. The riots of 1844 was over the Sovereign Debt Defaults of states in the 1840s combined with mass immigration from Ireland. Because the Irish were Catholics, the Protestants simplyused the religion for the excuse to riot during an economic decline.
