Quotes & Sayings About Economic Forecasting
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Top Economic Forecasting Quotes
Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right. — Eric Maskin
There's a phrase that critics of economic forecasting like to use: Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. This entire city is filled with number crunchers who look at the exact same data and interpret it in widely disparate ways on everything from the federal budget deficit to the Social Security surplus." "Meaning that data can be manipulated." "Of course it can, depending on who's paying the meter and whose political agenda is being furthered, — David Baldacci
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them. — Stanley Druckenmiller