Gazing into their crystal balls last week, Wall Street firms interpreted differing futures for gold next year.
Us journos regularly being issued with one of those crystal balls that banish all uncertainty about the future sort of thing.
But like all market crystal balls, this one is far from infallible.
Always remember that market prognosticators tend to operate with cracked crystal balls.
Of course, intellectual brilliance has yet to prove that it is more likely to produce reliable forecasts of the future than crystal balls.
Last year, the organizers asked speakers to peer into their crystal balls and try to predict what Broadway would look like in 2032.
When we stare into our crystal balls and try to predict the future, often as not we predict the possible troubling implications of this or that technology.
It is yet another tool in our collection of crystal balls for the economy and, if read correctly, is a great way to add some valuable holdings to a portfolio.
Those investors most disillusioned this year had probably fallen victim to the most pernicious myth of investment folklore: that professionals have crystal balls, telling them to switch into, say, cash just before a stockmarket dip.
The threat of further terrorism, fighting in the Middle East (with its repercussions for the oil price) and maybe a transatlantic trade war, conjuring up ghastly parallels with the 1930s, have all clouded their crystal balls further.
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