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Economic theory is not sufficiently developed to predict major turning points based on first principles or mathematical models.
As the US current-account deficit rose over the past half-decade, international economists have lined up to predict doom: returns on assets invested in the US are relatively low, so at some point - probably all at once - holders of dollar-denominated securities will realize that the risk of suffering a major crash in value is not being adequately compensated.
The World Bank predicts 3.5% growth for the world economy this year, and most analysts predict that the United States will grow at a similar pace.
Tactics are short-term solutions that often have significant unforeseen consequences, making it impossible to predict the kind of world they will generate.
On the surface, Europe’s current crisis, which some people predict will tear apart the European Union, is financial.
This sequence of failures has led some to predict the end of protest politics.
Indeed, the value of the euro would be tied to an event difficult to predict and equally difficult to define.
Admittedly, these warnings did not add up to an ironclad case, and they certainly didn’t predict the timing of the break.
The Greeks, for their part, have been putting their national identity ahead of their pocketbooks, in ways that economists do not understand and continually fail to predict.
When you open a Pandora’s box, nobody can predict what will happen.
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe’s savage twentieth century.
It is not possible to predict with any accuracy the impact of an increase in the quota percentages in the open-list systems that currently have effective quota legislation.
Individuals are granted both the right to know – to be informed of the results of any genetic test about themselves – and the right to choose to live in ignorance of what a genetic test may predict about their future.
As genetic testing becomes increasingly able to predict not only health, but also some cognitive and personality traits, the prohibition on employer testing may also put German employers at a disadvantage in the international marketplace.
In a speech at the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2014, Mario Draghi, the ECB’s president, explained that three things could improve economic performance in Europe:But Draghi went on to predict that Germany would not create a fiscal deficit and that Italy and France would not undertake the needed structural reforms.
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?
It’s tempting to predict how this will end.
We might guess the general consequences of global warming in the next couple of decades, but the details remain hard to predict, as does the distant future.
We cannot predict our fate, but we can be certain that security will only come through real solidarity and global partnership.
Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.
If the UK and the EU agree to a new trade relationship based on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the studies predict, the UK will lose about €110 billion ($119 billion), whereas the EU will lose only about €50 billion.
We can predict which islands were likely large enough to have once supported unique species and so estimate how many species are missing.
Demographers predict that the US is the only large developed country that will experience a significant increase in population in the first half of the twenty-first century.
Analysts such as John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago have flatly proclaimed that China cannot rise peacefully, and predict that “the United States and China are likely to engage in an intense security competition with considerable potential for war.”
But I predict large budget deficits for years to come, and a growing sense of unease within the US and abroad about America's macroeconomic situation.
Wait a bit, they predict, and wages will fully catch up later in the cycle.
What has happened is (fortunately) not an everyday occurrence; it would be foolish to look at past recoveries to predict this one.
That depends on when you think the financial crisis will abate, and the timing of that is as hard to predict as exchange rates.
Some analysts predict that only half of Britain’s MPs will be returned in next year’s election.
But what Orwell failed to predict is that China’s government has accomplished this with the help of Western democracies.
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