Hints and tips:
...Charlie Bean: Only if your crystal ball is made of green glass . .....
...It’s crystal clear that the public finances were not repaired by cutting spending, but by the recovering economy....
...The FT asked 81 economists to peer into their crystal balls and answer a variety of questions about the economy this year....
...Absent a crystal ball, projections are almost always wrong — particularly in the highly uncertain environment in which we are currently operating....
...Andrew Simms, New Economics Foundation: Forward guidance is a blunt instrument. Even with interest rates as low as they are there is a failure of lending to small and medium sized enterprises....
...Contrast that with the paltry dozen Britonswho have done the same in 2006, and the extent of the decline in British distance running in recent years is crystal clear....
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