economic forecaster
noun[C]
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apersonororganizationthat makeseconomicforecasts:
In asurveyoftopeconomicforecasters, 91% said theyexpectedtheeconomytogrowat anannualrateof between 2% to 5% in the secondhalfof thisyear.
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Every seriouseconomicforecasteris predicting that things will get worse again in 1985.
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I know of no othereconomicforecasterwho remotely believes that.
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He was notable as a researcher on the performance of economic forecasting, and he concluded that economic forecasters have little success in predicting business cycle turning points.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.First, forecasting macroeconomic aggregates is of obvious utility to business and policymakers, and yet, the track record of economic forecasters is mixed.
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Usually, economic forecasters are additionally required to compile predictions for subaggregates of the main demand aggregates, such as consumption of durable goods and investment in machinery.
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There is a lemming-like quality about economic forecasters who have a tendency to assume that things will continue as they are today.
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There have been perhaps 45 independent economic forecasters' predictions of the future of the various indicators in the economy.
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The general consensus among economic forecasters is that unemployment will continue to rise throughout 1981 and well into 1982.
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Thankfully, independent economic forecasters do not wish to play that game.
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There is far too great a disposition these days to give to economic forecasters or preachers a kind of astrological importance.
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