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For actual GDP, such frequent and large forecast revisions are inevitable.
The Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary have moved in this direction, preparing to target a steady, linear inflation path consistent with the long-term inflation forecast for the eurozone.
As expected inflation converges with the forecast for the eurozone, the financial markets will declare a candidate "ripe" for full-fledged euroization.
One’s forecast of those decisions hinges, in turn, on why these other countries came to run such large surpluses in the first place.
One development that could change this forecast is if China comes to view investing in US financial assets as a money-losing proposition.
Decreased earnings led Yemen to forecast a $3.2 billion budget deficit last year.
The International Energy Agency’s forecast that the US will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer in 2015 has led major GCC oil producers – notably the Saudis, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait – to postpone investment in expanding their output.
The bubble is inflated further by the asymmetry between those who bet that prices will rise and buy, and those who forecast a fall, but stay out because to sell short is too costly.
If Aurora’s forecast proves correct, Copenhagen’s wind project would become a massive failure, costing 50% more than the saved electricity is worth.
The colonial borders are being called into question, and what will become of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan is difficult to forecast.
Yet, despite these promises, consumer demand for energy is forecast by the International Energy Agency to rise until at least 2040.
It is good that the Court’s decisions cannot be forecast, and even better that the Court cannot be lobbied or petitioned.
That projected interest cost may be much less than it would actually be if the rest of the deficit and debt forecast turns out to be correct.
With a federal debt of 141% of GDP, that 5.8%-of-GDP interest cost implies an average nominal interest rate of just 4% and, given the CBO’s inflation forecast, a real interest rate of about 2% – similar to historic rates when the debt ratio was less than 40% of GDP.
Here is an amazing and disturbing implication of the CBO’s forecast.
The International Monetary Fund, having just downgraded its forecast for global growth, warned the assembled G-20 attendees that yet another downgrade was pending.
If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie’s commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?
Indeed, a huge body of research shows that for most major currencies, the best forecast of next week’s exchange rate, next month’s exchange rate, or even next year’s exchange rate is simply today’s exchange rate.
Moreover, production may occur in response to actual demand, not anticipated or forecast demand.
What is hardest to forecast, though, are turning points – when the old relationships break down.
Despite scientific critics of the Club of Rome’s methods, the public was ready to believe the dire forecast.
A third piece of the forecast puzzle is the disparity between the behavior of financial markets and that of the real economy.
His forecast represented a simple extrapolation of two trends: continued financial deepening worldwide (that is, faster growth of financial assets than of the real economy), and London’s maintenance of its share of the global financial business.
As in all forms of centralized artificial intelligence, past patterns are used to forecast future ones.
October headline inflation at 2.5% is above the 2% ECB target -- as is the latest forecast for 2006 inflation (updated forecasts come out the first of December).
In the ensuing months, that forecast was steadily whittled down, reaching 3.1% in October.
Nobody can forecast what will emerge from the expert council Sarkozy has appointed to consider these constitutional changes.
When Inflation Doves CryPITTSBURGH – The Wall Street Journal recently ran a front-page article reporting that the monetary-policy “doves,” who had forecast low inflation in the United States, have gotten the better of the “hawks,” who argued that the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities, or so-called quantitative easing (QE), would unleash faster price growth.
It is possible for them to hold that view and still forecast 2% growth for the next 12 months as the most likely outcome or the “median” of their probability distribution.
Any decision maker who depends on forecasts – a businessman, an investor, or a government official – needs to know the probability of very low or very high growth rates, as well as the median forecast.
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