In May 2010, an unsung numbers hobbyist named Ed Weiland wrote a long-term forecast of Jeremy Lin for the basketball website Hoops Analyst.
In Forbes, we wrote about why long-term investors might want to think twice before investing in gold (whether the metal itself or stocks from gold mining companies), how to push for a better retirement plan at work and how to avoid costly mistakes in your Individual Retirement Account.
"It's a start but I'll believe it when I see it in the long term, " wrote user Melissa Perault.
Keith Robison, a genetics researcher at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, wrote on his blog OmicsOmics that the long-term battle between MiSeq and Ion Torrent could be hard to call.
Last December, with stocks way down from their highs but well above current levels, I wrote that stocks seemed like a reasonable long-term bet for someone with a time horizon of six to seven years who wasn't using borrowed money and could ride out a possible sharp decline.
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To defeat them, he wrote, business leaders needed to wage a long-term, unified campaign to change public opinion.
For instance, I wrote a story back in December about the potential pitfalls of the long-term care program.
However, just as significant - at least in the long term - is the fact that the British prime minister wrote his letter calling for action to save the world economy not with European leaders but to them.
That decision could prove wise in the long term, says Prudential Equity Group analyst Mark Lipacis, who wrote in a research note that the deal makes strategic sense.
" The bottom line, they wrote, "is that Netflix has yet to break its near-term or long-term trend lines, " and "until it does we would not consider Netflix to be topping.
"It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies, " he wrote.
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