Hence I am happy to have that forecast on the record, even though I didn’t actually intend to make it. Perhaps that says that chance plays as big a role in forecasting as it seems to in many other areas of life.
These days I am more of a consumer of economic forecasts than a producer of them, and while I suppose a former forecaster never entirely loses interest in the forecasting process, it is in the capacity of user that I have come here today.