The Wall Street Journal recently named Brian the winner of the newspaper's economic forecasting contest.
Don't get the idea that the exuberant 1990s were a singularly bad decade of economic forecasting.
But investors should be wondering if his economic forecasting abilities match his self-promotion talents.
Basically this means that in his economic forecasting he takes very seriously what suppliers are doing, or not doing.
However, Mr Brown wants to do more than win prizes for economic forecasting.
Economic forecasting is a dodgy business at the best of times, and currency forecasts are the least reliable of the lot.
Klein award for economic forecasting for the second time on October 20.
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One is that the thing that makes economic forecasting difficult, if not impossible, is the sheer complexity and variability of the relationships involved.
The funny thing about these economic forecasts is that they are treated as very reliable sources of information, but the fact is that economic forecasting is in its infancy.
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Indeed, says Yakov Pappe of the Russian Academy of Sciences's Institute of Economic Forecasting, nationalising Yukos if it were done right would correct a mistake made during the privatisations of the 1990s.
However, Tory MPs rallied behind the chancellor and Andrew Tyrie, chair of the Treasury select committee, said the downgrade was of "limited value" given the ratings agencies "dismal record" of corporate and economic forecasting in the past.
Growth in gross domestic product (GDP) across the 12-member eurozone over the October to December period is likely to have fallen within the range of minus 0.3% to plus 0.1%, the commission's new economic forecasting model has estimated.
To central bankers, he advocates more rigour in evaluating the impact of their decisions through greater use of economic models and forecasting.
Shakespeare was forecasting that economic and political power was going to continue to be moving south.
Separate research departments bring a variety of economic theories, analysis, forecasting techniques, and conclusions to the FOMC table.
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The Bank is forecasting a rapid economic expansion of nearly 3.5% this year, well above the trend growth rate of 2.5%.
Wholesale prices are rising, and those for consumer goods were flat in February and may soon be going up more quickly than most pundits are forecasting, as economic recovery broadens.
Given the historic relationship between the risk premium and economic growth, the market is currently forecasting a growth rate over the next few years of about 1%.
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Even normally cautious bodies like the International Energy Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are sounding the alarm, with the latter recently releasing a comprehensive report forecasting a world in 2050 that will be defined by resource constraint and its economic impacts.
For months the economic analysts polled each week by the Central Bank have been forecasting ever-higher inflation for 2011.
He dabbled in teaching, consulting and election forecasting, then landed a prized assignment as an economic adviser in the finance ministry.
The Congressional Budget Office is embarking on a series of studies, using what is called dynamic forecasting, to try to take account of the economic impact of the tax plans.
You'll actually see a table in the economic report in chapter two that actually shows you what other people were forecasting at the same time we were doing our forecast, to kind of give you just the facts on the degree to which the world was changing very quickly.
The LEI has a good record of forecasting recessions, and the latest readings show a continued pattern of economic growth.
Forecasting errors tend to be larger at turning points in the business cycle and when shifts occur in major economic trends.
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