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Political predictions they got wrong (No19) The Coming Job Boom
Sometimes mistaken predictions are merely a matter of bad timing. For instance people can be right in the long-term while being horribly wrong in the short-term. That’s partly why so many futurologists...
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Great mistakes in politics (No23) – Gordon Brown sells Britain’s gold reserves
Gordon Brown is probably not going to be remembered as one of the Great British Prime Ministers. His short time in power saw his government lurch from disaster to disaster, eventually culminating in...
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Michele Bachmann was the breakout star of the Republican Primary debate
Watching the Republican debate on CNN last night it occurred to me that there were a lot of similarities here with a regular scripted show. All of the candidates had obviously spent a lot of time...
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Political predictions they got wrong (No20) An end to boom and bust
There’s a very old joke that goes something like this, “How do you make God laugh?”, the punchline is “Tell him your future plans”. Despite the fact that predicting the future is as about as easy as...
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Political predictions they got wrong (No22) The Coming Collapse of China
Gordon Chang has been predicting the collapse of China for over a decade now. Whenever China is in the news he turns us as an analyst, often on Fox, to discuss how the world’s newest superpower is...
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Great mistakes in politics (No25) Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807
I have to admit here that I don’t like Thomas Jefferson. Of all the major Founding Fathers he is my least favourite by some considerable margin. However that said, he was a fairly successful President...
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Political predictions they got wrong (No24) Ireland’s Economic Success
Almost every country in the world was badly affected by the 2008 ‘Credit Crunch’, but some more than others. In the case of Ireland the impact was more noticeable because of the huge economic boom the...
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Political predictions they got wrong (No28) Dow 36000
Writing this column week after week means that I’ve read a lot of silly books. Sometimes these works are simply the result of authors being too optimistic (or pessimistic), but on other occasions...
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Political predictions they got wrong (No30) Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not...
Why the Real Estate Boom will not Bust should probably win some sort of award for being one of the worst timed books ever. It’s certainly got one of the most ironic titles of all time. It’s a bit like...
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Political predictions they got wrong (No31) Paul Samuelson’s Economics
If you go into any decent second-hand book shop and look in the economics section, I’d be willing to bet you’d find several different additions of Nobel prize winner Paul Samuelson’s best-selling...
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