When Bloomberg Employees Predict the Future
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Every year around November or December, many journalists get an assignment they will probably hate. That assignment is, of course, to write about what will happen in the coming year – in other words, to predict the future.
Bloomberg reporter Josh Eidelson summarizes the problem aptly: “The predictions we’re most likely to remember are the ones that were the most dramatically, hilariously wrong.”