Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wiggle Room

Re:Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wigg... by rfinney on Monday February 11, 2019 @01:27PM (#19136840)

A very old joke: economists have predicted 9 out of the last 5 recessions.

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Re:Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wigg... by ahelwer on Monday February 11, 2019 @01:32PM (#19136905)

I mean really though, why do people even care about "economist/analyst predicts X" stories at all these days? If you're around markets for any period of time (or read Taleb) you know they know nothing and their predictions are worse than useless. It's just garbage information noise and the people who say or publish it should be embarrassed that they think they can predict the future.

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Re:Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wigg... by atomical on Monday February 11, 2019 @01:47PM (#19137085)

There is a lot of noise and one can never time the market, but I think many of us are interested in analysis because we have a general interest in the economy.

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Re:Krugman Sees Possible U.S. Recession with Little Fed Wigg... by b_tterc_p on Monday February 11, 2019 @01:43PM (#19137037)

What about X% of economists predict Y?

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