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Tangible results were predicted to come soon.
The Fed predicted an annual inflation rate, based on the personal consumption expenditures index, of 1.9% for 2015.
When those indictments were issued, no one could have predicted how events would unfold; in retrospect, it is evident that the indictments’ delegitimizing effects had important consequences.
Officials saw increased crime as the natural cost of war, and many predicted that as young members matured, the gangs would disappear.
No one predicted it.
Instead, the problem this time around is one that relatively calm times have helped reveal: the predicted benefits of financial globalization are nowhere to be seen.
Cheating Britain Out of EuropeLONDON – Several months ago, I predicted that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government would fall by next month, when the British people realized that the “soft Brexit” they had been promised was impossible.
Who could have predicted that 75 years after the collapse of fascism in Italy that we would now have a leader in Rome acting like Mussolini?
Economists usually joke that the stock market has predicted 12 out of the last nine recessions, as markets often fall sharply without an ensuing recession.
But, in the last two years, the stock market has predicted six out of the last zero economic recoveries – that is, six bear market rallies that eventually fizzled and led to new lows.
After all, futures markets predicted prices of $75 or higher; the Saudi and Russian governments needed $100 to balance their budgets; and any price much below $50 was considered unsustainable, because it would put the US shale-oil industry out of business.
For example, the market couldn’t have predicted 9/11.
But what was predictable and predicted was the manner in which under-regulated derivatives could inflame the crisis.
For example, the BoE (correctly) predicted a fall in the sterling exchange rate following the Brexit vote.
In 2000, their forebears predicted that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider would create weird hypothetical particles known as strangelets, which would quickly transform Earth into a hot, dense lump of strange matter.
With these capitalisation figures alone you could have predicted which OECD economies would boom in the late 1990s.
He then predicted that the future would amount to a prolongation of the past and present, characterized by “violent politics and violent political changes” and by “social distribution, not growth.”
As Hobsbawm predicted, skyrocketing income inequality has emerged as a major cause of rising nationalism, anti-globalization sentiment, and even the shift toward authoritarianism.
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 federal budget deficit has declined from 8.4% of GDP in 2011 to a predicted 2.9% of GDP for all of 2014.
Yet Krugman now says that everything has turned out just as he predicted.
In the weeks and days leading up to Israel’s election, his defeat was widely predicted.
The party retained control of the Senate, even though more than twice as many Republican seats were up for reelection than Democratic seats, and it lost just a handful of House seats, far fewer than the 20 predicted.
He predicted that as China built up its military forces, it would become more open to exerting its influence abroad.
The US Federal Reserve, which pioneered the post-crisis experiments with zero interest rates and QE, began to reduce its purchases of long-term securities at the beginning of 2014, stopped QE completely later that year, and started raising interest rates in 2015 – all without producing the “cold turkey” effects predicted by skeptics.
Then again, no opinion polls predicted that the general election would result in a majority Conservative government.
The imminent US rate hike is perhaps the most predictable, and predicted, event in economic history.
Books predicted a Japanese-led Pacific bloc that would exclude the US, and even an eventual war between the two countries.
But it seems unlikely that a revived Japan, a decade or two hence, could become a global challenger economically or militarily, as was predicted two decades ago.
The EU and the European Central Bank predicted that the first bailout program would drive Greek GDP down by another 3% below 2010 levels, before the economy began to recover in 2012.
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