…prices be more accurate. 3) speculation–defined as “accurately forecasting an investment’s fundamental strength or weakness”–is not the same as manipulation–defined as “when investors ‘attack’ a financial market in order to…

…death of the Trust Fund. I can’t do that. I prefer to let the Social Security Trustees do all the hard forecasting. All I can do is point out what…

…it was approved. No law prevents them from forecasting demand based on the evidence, published in top peer reviewed journals, that Zenapax has many other uses and that demand for…

…Connelly that we should “Think of this as a potential black-liquor II” and Marty Sullivan as forecasting “$25 billion in tax reductions for pulp producers claiming the cellulosic biofuel tax…

should read Sensible Centrist J. Bradford DeLong on the difference in forecasting between the current Administration and the CEA under N. Gregory Mankiw. Romer/Bernstein/Kreuger et al., 2008-9 edition: As I…

Our findings do not provide much support for the usefulness of monetary aggregates in forecasting inflation. See more at the St. Louis Fed. Did building realistic macroeconomic models just get…

…identify that certain macroeconomic features exist, but they don’t bother to quantify the importance of those features. and also a comment pushmedia1 Says: January 29th, 2009 at 3:03 pm To…

…this chart. In business cycle analysis if you use NBER official terminology the cyle should be divided into three phases. The first is recession from the peak in economic activity…

…Arnold’s worst, maybe he was forecasting that Allan Sloan’s suggestion might become reality. As far as the Social Security program – with modest adjustments to the benefit structure to be…

…will persist. Is the average of the past 40 years a reasonable means for forecasting the future? Is their expectation that low real interest rates will persist a plausible one?…