, Columnist
Forecasting Follies
Today's economic news proved, once again, the foolishness of thinking that anyone can make forecasts about the future with any degree of reliability.
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As I sat down to write this early this morning, no one knew what the jobs numbers would be. But I did know three related things:
1. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists is that 230,000 workers were added in August;