The Future is More Certain Than Usually Thought

Dr. Joe Webb, director of Lexington, Kentucky-based What They Think’s Economics and Research Center, offers thoughts on the marketplace’s future in light of current economic challenges.

The current financial turmoil is supposedly making it very difficult to forecast the future. However, there is a strange paradox about forecasting—the further out you forecast, the more accurate you can be. But, you can’t use numbers.