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How legit are economic forecasts?

This month’s Dollars & Sense debates the pros and cons of economic forecasts and reading the tea leaves.

Jarrod Kerr, Gareth Kiernan, and David Cunningham join NBR’s Jonathan Mitchell.

Forecasting and predicting the economy can be a difficult and fun job, according to economists, in a world when shocks just suddenly appear – think cyclones, Covid 19, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But every week, analysts and pundits seem to push through that noise and give their take of

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Jonathan Mitchell Wed, 07 Jun 2023
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