The only thing more reliable than an economic prediction is one made by a government economist.
If you didn't recognize that, it's called sarcasm.
The "dismal science". Your average economist is wrong about half the time. A government economist that has never been informed by private enterprise... worse.
My entire career I've heard that computers were going to replace programmers.
Maybe this time.
Remember when 60 minutes couldn't get Kamala Harris to carry on normal conversation, so they edited in audio from a DIFFERENT interview. Nothing to see here, totally normal.
Some were claiming that the cutting of USAID had resulted in millions of deaths... not realizing that we already knew most of the money was used for money laundering. Well, the legacy news readers probably thought millions died. But the rest of us... not so much.