Maybe I can foretell the future.

But I am predicting, not prescribing.

I never could figure what he saw in the dame in the first place.

Let me make a prediction for you, which is probably even more startling.

I cannot predict who will win this growing confrontation.

Just as the women in Hawaii that raised me predicted, the world is in trouble.

I hate to throw a damper, but if David was home, I think he'd be calling instead of Mrs Kentley.

OK, I want to show you kind of a busy chart, but in it is my prediction with what's going to happen.

And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of years.

It wouldn't be fair to end this talk without putting myself on the line, and making some predictions!

I can therefore confidently predict that the vast majority of South Africans will wish to participate in the elections at the end of April.

I'm predicting, though, as profitable as this industry is going to be and it certainly is profitable when you fly people at 200,000 dollars on something that you can actually operate at a tenth of that cost, or less this is going to be very profitable.

And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of years.

I'm predicting, though, as profitable as this industry is going to be and it certainly is profitable when you fly people at 200,000 dollars on something that you can actually operate at a tenth of that cost, or less this is going to be very profitable.

So I cannot predict the outcome, and neither can the masters of the universe in the City of London, who always become jittery in the face of political uncertainty. What I can do is try to explain why that uncertainty exists.