There are rumors around the world that the British edition on its title page is veiledly presenting an economic prophecy for the next year.
The British edition of The Economist is known all over the world largely due to the fact that every year on the December cover, the authors allegedly encrypt an economic prediction for the next year.
The owner of the publication is the Rothschild clan, which is called the chief conductor of world politics, so the cover of the publication always receives the closest attention in the world.
At first, readers were startled - in October there was information that the cover of the magazine will be black, which means that the economy is threatened with complete collapse.
But the cover, published in December, dispelled those rumors.
The first page of the magazine as a result was a kind of canvas with sketches in the style of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Mathatma Gandhi and Angelina Jolie are depicted in the Renaissance style.
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The experts tried to tell what this means.
So, firstly, da Vinci, as you know, wrote in "mirror type", that is, backwards, which already suggests that the obvious can actually mean exactly the opposite.
So, the famous Vitruvian man Leonardo da Vinci, on whom the artist "put on" something similar to a night vision device or virtual reality glasses, can mean, together with all the other images, the change of eras. After all, the paintings of this artist arose during the transition from the Renaissance to the changeable and unstable period of the Baroque, "when the whole and reasonable idea of the world and understanding of man as a rational being disintegrate," analyst Alexei Kushch told KP.
About geopolitics
As for the overall picture, according to experts, the role of Western civilization will increase, and the potential of the East (China, Russia and Arab countries) will decrease.
Pinocchio's long nose looks like a symbol of information wars, total simulacra and lies, says Kushch, the English bulldog in North America is a symbol that England will leave the EU.
Philosophically observing all this, the American poet and author of the epic series "Leaves of Grass" about the emerging power of the United States, Walt Whitman, most likely means just the possible power of the States. On the other hand - from the poet's poem “Oh, captain! My Captain "dedicated to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln (" Wake up, father! My hand lies on your forehead, And you fell asleep on deck, As if in a dead dream ") - a reference to the" dying "American dream may arise.
Other experts of the publication noticed that the portrait of US President Trump looks to the east, the portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the west, the symbol of China, a panda, is comfortably located between them, and all this against the background of the Japanese shrine, Mount Fuji. Financial analyst Bogdan Pisarenko believes that this is a symbol of the trade conflict between the United States and China, on the resolution of which the growth rate of the world economy as a whole will depend.
The problem of Britain leaving the EU closes the picture. It is clearly seen that the dog is not in the mood, but this is not the main thing here. The fact is that the bulldog is famous for its death grip. This means that the British government, with or without Theresa May, will get its way. What will be the result will be known after March 30, 2019, when the Brexit deadline comes.
About economy
Experts were also not unanimous on the issue of economic symbols. The only thing they agreed on was that the puzzle talks about the global financial crisis.
According to Kushch, an electric car is a symbol of a systemic change in demand for traditional fuel, an armadillo is a signal of a possible crisis in Brazil, which will activate destruction in a segment of developing countries, an elephant with arrow tusks is a signal that the focus in the third world will shift from China to India., and the panda in Greenland only confirms this - China will be very "cold" financially.
According to the author, in 2019 there will be a global merger of Freudianism and Marxism, the impossibility of representative democracy in the conditions of the dominance of simulacra. And Fujiyama at the top of the cover is a hint that only Japan in this paradigm will preserve its internal integrity.
Pisarenko believes that The Economist's version of the Vitruvian Man (at the bottom of the page) represents symbols of the modern era, says Bohdan Pysarenko.
The American stock market may be "overheated" next year, and the US national debt will begin to grow at a high rate.
The refugee crisis and the flight to the moon
Analyst Andrei Shevshichin believes that the authors predict space flights to the Moon and Mars for mankind, as well as to new horizons of space exploration.
Shevshichin does not exclude that the four horsemen of the apocalypse may mean natural disasters.
Angelina Jolie is a hint of refugees, experts say.
Struggle for women's rights
Analysts kept silent about one symbol that the journalists of the Ukrainian "KP" saw - it was the hashtag #MeToo.
Beneath the hashtag on the cover is a portrait of the 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who was raped as a teenager by an arts teacher.
In court, she was subjected to humiliating physical examination and torture to prove the truth of her statements before her abuser was convicted. In the modern world, Gentileschi has become a symbol of the struggle for the rights of women who have been sexually abused, she is even called the symbol #MeToo.
As the correspondent notes, the self-portrait from the cover of The Economist was sold for a record for Gentileschi's works of 2.18 million dollars. Perhaps the authors are hinting that someone will make good money on the struggle for women's rights next year.
