4 Billion people will go to the polls to elect their governments this year so half the human species will be holding an election.
What this has sparked in my mind: people ask us how we could have a worldwide revolution, well, we can just look at this phenomena: imagine a year like this, wherein a conscious worldwide movement pledged to bring about socialism were contesting all these elections.
Of course, one of these states voting is Russia: where the election is all but fixed, but imagine a solid vote of 2 billion humans for socialism, and the promise of more to come in coming years.
How would that affect the financial markets? Well, guess.