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When forecasting trends, sometimes looking backward is the best way to look ahead. TIME's James O. Jackson examines the perils of prediction
Predicting what will happen this year is largely a matter of achieving a delicate balance between the obvious and the unexpected. Nobody, of course, could have foreseen the events of Sept. 11; the ruthlessness of the terrorists who swept away the pride of New York's skyline was as beyond...
But if Greenspan's suggestion that the worst is over made for the happy news of the day, for investors his caveat about the best being a long way off may be the more salient prediction. Because despite the recent percolations in techs from semiconductors to data storage to cell...
Can you venture a prediction as to how this debate will end?
By week's end, though, the Guantanamo issue had been supplanted on the front pages by gruesome tales of the terror attack in the northern Israeli town of Hadera. Haaretz commentator Amos Harel could be forgiven for his eerily prescient prediction of the aftermath of last weekend's assassination of...