%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%I don't know who originally proposed this, but it's RIDICULOUS.. ASININE.
If we all got "what we want out of the markets", we'd all be fabulously rich.
I agree;
partly.
But that is not a prediction, because even Ed , by his own admission had a lot of eye trouble + lost more than he wanted to on silver trends.
So no,, as you implied,poetry or proverbs are not predictions always.
Eve a HI probility proverb like ''in all labor there is profit'' Proverbs 14;23;
did not work well in Germany in 1940's
so proverbs may help.