A religious sect based in Boston predicts that the end of the world will occur on January 1, 2001. The world, of course, did not end then. The leader of the sect explains that the prophesy failed to come true because members of the sect did not have enough faith in it.

1. A small, secret society of corporate CEOs and international bankers runs the economies of the United States and Europe. For its own benefit and for its own reasons the society decides when these nations go into and come out of recession, what levels of production will be achieved by the oil industry, and what each country’s gross national product will be. Members of the society are so rich and powerful that they are able to hide the society’s activities from public view and operate without the knowledge of governments and ordinary citizens.