Crazy predictions for 2025 – including new hearts and the most profitable company of all time

Denmark-based Saxo Bank has continued its nearly two-decade tradition by publishing eight outrageous predictions for 2025.
Experts at the bank have made the predictions as ‘consensus-smashing forecasts’ that would ‘send shockwaves through the markets’ – but only if they come to pass.
By its own admission, the predictions are not actually expected to happen—they are about being “outrageous”, not being “right”—but for the many misses over the years, there have at least been a few predictions that have come close or, at the very least, thematically on point.
For example, in the 2024 predictions, the bank boldly predicted that a major health crisis would shake the globe as obesity drugs make people stop exercising.
There was no global health crisis, nor has exercise gone anywhere, but 2024 did make waves with diabetes medication Ozempic becoming a hot trend for celebrities and those wealthy enough to afford the jab – leading to dramatic weight loss results.
Other outrageous predictions from the past have been strikingly on-theme.
In 2023, the bank predicted that a country would move to ban all meat production by 2030. No ban was announced, but the UN did put meat production on the agenda as part of the fight back against climate change.
In 2022, it predicted that the ‘end fossil fuels’ agenda would be postponed. This actually did happen – but for very different reasons. While it was predicted this would be born from policy setters, it was actually the Russian invasion of Ukraine that led to the setback.
The bank was also on the pulse with the rise of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and even called Brexit two years before it happened.
So heading into 2025, the predictions pose an interesting thought for the new year – potentially laying out something unexpected or related to what is to come.
1. Trump 2.0 blows up the US Dollar
“As the new Trump administration turns the global financial system on its head with huge tariffs, the world scrambles to find alternatives to the dollar.”
2. Nvidia balloons to double the value of Apple
“Armed with its revolutionary AI chips, tech giant Nvidia could grow to twice Apple’s size and become the most profitable company of all time.”
3. China unleashes CNY 50 trillion stimulus to reflate its economy
“Having created history’s most epic debt bubble, China boldly bets that fiscal stimulus to the tune of trillions of CNY is the only answer.”
4. First bio-printed human heart ushers in a new era of longevity
“Fusing bioengineering and medical science, scientists successfully bio-print a human heart, promising to extend the lives of millions.”
5. Electrification boom ends OPEC
“As electric vehicles become more affordable, oil-rich OPEC countries could become irrelevant in 2025 and find themselves on ash heap of history.”
6. US imposes AI data centre tax as power prices run wild
“With tech giants sucking up power supplies for their new AI data centres, utility bills skyrocket and an outraged public demands action.”
7. A natural disaster bankrupts a large insurance company for the first time
“After years of wild weather in 2024, a catastrophic storm hits the US in 2025, sinking a large insurer that has underestimated climate change risks.”
8. Sterling erases post-Brexit discount vs the Euro
“As Europe’s economy struggles, fresh fiscal policy winds are blowing in the UK, driving sterling back to levels versus the Euro not seen since before Brexit.”