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Predictive power

Crystal balls

Thu Mar 23 2023 - 00:03

Sir, – Economists this week are so engaging, erudite and insightful on the bank collapses. The “joined-up thinking” is simply marvellous. The logic and inevitability of what happened is made so abundantly clear. They remind me of weather forecasters whose role is to tell us what the weather was like yesterday. – Yours, etc,

LEO LAWLER,

Clontarf,

Co Dublin.

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