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Before 1985, by contrast, financial markets were overwhelmingly dominated by the herd behavior of short-term traders, people who sought not to identify fundamentals, but to predict what average opinion would expect average opinion to be, and to predict it before average opinion did.
Wasn’t it when the economy was hit by a housing and financial crisis, which economists were supposed to predict?
"Withdrawal" of the sort pessimists predict, indeed, actually happened already in the late 80s after the Chinese and British governments signed their joint declaration announcing the handover.
But it is difficult to predict whether such a division of labor with the disenchanted former Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine will be possible.
Just as Putin’s gross mismanagement of the economy has led even the economics minister to predict stagnation for the rest of this decade, his geopolitical nostalgia is poised to saddle Russians with the same dysfunctional empire that impoverished them under the Soviets.
For the world is awash in dangers that are diverse, decentralized (yet intertwined), and difficult to predict .
Of course: to predict and avert conflicts is more difficult than to engage and win them.
According to this interpretation, market participants would begin to predict the decline of the dollar.
Some experts even predict that it will soon move forward with a “small-scale military operation” to expel the Indian troops currently in its claimed territory.
Then there is the concept of systemic risk, which is not only in the eye of the beholder but may be impossible to predict.
In attempting to predict which governments might face a similar fate this time, the basic criteria – in addition to the oil slump’s financial impact – are resilience and flexibility.
As much as pundits like to predict the collapse of the Saudi Arabian monarchy, they are likely to be disappointed once again.
For adults, we predict ten million new cases per year by 2060, up from 3.5 million today.
To see the hierarchy in this mechanism, consider that by perceiving just a few letters, you can predict the word; by looking at a few words, you can predict what the sentence means, or even the paragraph.
In a particular city or country, you can predict, even a decade in advance, which industries will appear or disappear or grow or wane just by knowing the history of what has been there and everywhere else.
Indeed, demographers predict that in 2050 non-Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority of US residents.
It does not take a prophet to predict that the latest chapter of the euro crisis will leave Germany’s austerity policy in tatters – unless Merkel really wants to take the enormous risk of letting the euro fail.
Still, even if governments do everything right, the benefits of ICTs for low-income countries are limited and difficult to predict.
If someone does have such a reputation, their predictions can become self-fulfilling prophecies: if they predict, say, a stock-market crash, everybody will begin to sell their shares, bringing about the predicted outcome.
The likelihood of such an outcome is hard to predict.
Nor does economic theory provide a blueprint for change because markets have their own creativity and dynamics that are usually impossible to predict in advance.
The nature of financial risk is constantly changing in ways that are difficult to predict using backward-looking indicators like those being devised by the G-20.
Those who have used the prevailing economic fable about the 1970s to predict upward outbreaks of inflation in the 1990s, the 2000s, and now the 2010s have all been proven wrong.
If scientists can decode the genetic code and read the instructions, so the argument goes, they will find the key to human ailments and predict our predispositions.
Some scientists, indeed, are convinced that genetic tests will eventually help predict behavioral tendencies and personality traits – including predispositions to mental illness, homosexuality, addiction, even risk taking, timidity, and religiosity.
But even when genetic tests correctly predict that a person is at risk, there may be little or no benefit from that knowledge.
The ability to predict a growing number of complex and common diseases encourages testing, but also creates ethical dilemmas.
Efforts to predict predisposition to behavior (as opposed to disease) will only compound these conflicts.
These signals are then used to predict what a user intends to do.
It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel.
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