Thoughts on Murray's law of bad economic forecasts

But just how frequent are the acts of war that totally destroy them?
March 06, 2002

In an interview last week with Simon Murray, he cast doubts on the validity of economic forecasts because he said everything was dependent on political events, and cited acts of war as chief among them - ie if Bush declares war on Iraq tomorrow, all forecasts have to be recast.

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