Special Schadenfreude edition: In case you missed it, here is our updated collections of the worst predictions for how 2008 would turn out:
• The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008 (Foreign Policy)
• The Worst Predictions About 2008 (Businessweek)
• 2008 Investment Guides Are HILARIOUS (New York Magazine)
• Famous Last Words (CNBC)
• The worst media calls of 2008 (Kiplingers)
• Dropping the (crystal) ball: This crisis duped executives and regulators (LA Times)
• 10 Predictions’ for 2008: BlackRock’s Bob Doll (Reuters)
• Jim Cramer’s Predictions for 2008 (Covel)
Those two above have been cited all over the web. Here are a few others worth mentioning (did I miss any?)
• How wrong they were (Salon)
• The web’s worst predictions (Daily Mail UK)
• Worst Tech Predictions of 2008 (C/NET)
(See also: Top 10 worst tech predictions of all time)• Global Insight: 2008 Forecasts Reviewed (PDF)
• The Most Inane Punditry of the 2008 presidential campaign (Media Matters)
Not predictions, but real time errors in assigning casting, via MarketBeat:
Bonus! Not a forecaster, but the person who consistently gets the present wrong:
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Related:
The Folly of Forecasting
RealMoney.com Contributor
6/7/2005 1:05 PM EDT
http://www.thestreet.com/_tscana/comment/barryritholtz/10226887.html
Worst Calls of 2008 (November 2008)
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/worst-calls-of-2008/
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