Citi economists in July made one of the most dire predictions of the situation in Greece.
Those dire predictions were used to justify more regulations, more taxes, more control over people's lives.
You may well feel that dire predictions about anything almost always turn out to be exaggerations.
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So give the French their due: le trente-cinq has defied the dire predictions of many economists.
The summit this week is being held with dire predictions of violence should it fail.
And some economists are now making dire predictions about what the next year will hold for manufacturers.
The unemployment rate has jumped from 6.8% to 7.2%, a 16-year high, far above economists' already dire predictions.
That hasn't stopped the industry funding a big lobbying effort and making dire predictions about the proposals' implications.
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So the European monetary union did not fall apart, despite the dire predictions of the pundits in late 2011.
We often hear that Thomas Malthus' dire predictions about population growth were wrong because humans innovated solutions to food shortages.
In spite of these dire predictions and this looming threat to our most vulnerable children, these outcomes are not inevitable.
Before 2009, for example, Congress fared woefully in a series of state polls, provoking dire predictions for the party's national prospects.
But despite the dire predictions, the handicappers and media experts who forecast a Chavez loss and potential ensuing chaos were wrong.
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All of the dire predictions about what would happen if there was a hung Parliament have proved wide of the mark.
The film was anyway shown in Westminster despite dire predictions that as many as 10, 000 Muslims would turn out in protest.
Fund manager shares dire predictions and his strategy for surviving the slowdown.
If it were true, I would join them in their dire predictions.
But no amount of flag waving and dire predictions will change them.
But then it accelerates rapidly past even the most dire predictions of inflation rate, meaning a 23% increase in the total rates bill.
And my opponents will say the dire predictions were going to be that every argument between a teacher and student would result in gunfire.
Many investors have avoided munis since late 2010 and early 2011, after dire predictions of mass defaults by municipalities and states led to panic selling.
Moreover, despite lingering tension between Ukraine's russified east and nationalist west, dire predictions that the country would be torn apart have so far proved wrong.
But this argument is reminiscent of the Club of Rome's dire predictions in the early 1970s that the world would soon run out of natural resources.
Many were also quick to add that the stock prices for these health insurers remain very healthy, indicating that shareholders in these companies clearly do not share my dire predictions and the shareholders certainly should know.
Politicians and economists frequently make dire predictions about the economic impact of business failure, but as Gershenoff's example makes plain, businesses frequently die (in Gershenoff's case, he switched to sports apparel) only to be replaced by others.
Outgoing Drug Enforcement Administrator Thomas Constantine, offering the most dire predictions, said lawmakers would create "an electronic sanctuary" for criminals intent on disrupting public safety or national security if the plan to drop controls on exports of encryption technology is not stopped.
Floods again, more dire economic predictions, the row over child abuse in North Wales rekindled and Awema, the 19th report in a row from the Wales Audit Office criticising the way the Welsh government deals with grant management.
The media loves spectacular predictions, especially when the outcome is dire.
"In my experience, when there's a whole lot of anxiety about something that might affect production, the predictions turn out to be a whole lot more dire than what turns out to be the reality, " says Hines.
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