Forbes.com: What’s It Take For Economists To Forecast U.S. Recessions Accurately?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Getting a job as a Wall Street economist is supposed to require great skill. But apparently that skill doesn’t mean developing the ability to forecast big events like recessions.

A year and a half after the ‘recession call’ started and we still have no recession. In fact, the U.S. is now growing faster than it has in ages. It flies in the face of the collective message from Wall Street. And that has me wondering what’s up. Read more here.

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