Mother of all hard landings and other BSesBY BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013 10:10AMThere's trouble - big trouble - heading our way. That's right. This lucky country is heading for one mighty crrr...ash. |
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You missed the best analogy of all these so-called forecasters...Even a broken clock tells the right time two times a day!
Oh yeah, how could I have missed that...but I think he gets the picture R.B.
Someone that I worked with several years ago told me, "Robbie, if you have to forecast, forecast long (term) and forecast often. Here are some other great quotes:
"Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!", by Paul Samuelson.
"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass", by Edgar R. Fiedler.
And the final word goes to the great Albert Einstein, who said, " I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn.
that's the spirit people!