Bad Predictions, Why Usain Is Bolting From London, Bad News For Obama And More

Friday, August 17, 2012

THEY GOT IT WRONG

Everyone is wrong sometimes. Even economists, politicians and pundits.

Predictions about the economy can often be confusing and contradictory. Is inflation going to spike or should we worry about deflation? Will President Obama's healthcare reform destroy the economy and insurance market? Will America default if it decides not to willingly default?

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BLOG POSTS

	Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Consumers Fight Big Banks for a Day in Court The public at large is finally learning about abuses in the credit card banking industry. Over time, the banks may change their policies. But as a consumer, you must learn your rights, and you must insist that your rights are upheld.
	Lisa Gilbert: Bonus Boom, Bank Bust, Bailout. Repeat. It's not a fun time to be an American taxpayer. There's nothing quite like learning that CEOs from some of the biggest banks your hard-earned money helped bail out made more last year than their firms paid back to Uncle Sam.
	Eric Schoenberg: Policy Pseudocertainty The future of government policy in a democracy is always uncertain. Unless Governor Romney wants to create a dictatorial regime able to prevent future policy changes, the real issue is not certainty but pseudocertainty.
	Mark Cuban: Which USA Do You Work In? Digital entrepreneurship is experiencing a renaissance. In the digital world, the non-brick and mortar world, there is negative unemployment. That's right, there are far more jobs than there are people to fill them.
	Steve Rosenbaum: If I Were the CEO of Best Buy Best Buy, having outlived its main retail competitor Circuit City, should be ruling the world. And yet they're in a tailspin. Here's six things Richard Schulze must do to save Best Buy.