Economic Quote by Ben Bernanke

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

— Sylvia Porter

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

— Russell L. Ackoff

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in…

— Paul Saffo

The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less…

— John Maynard Keynes

If you have to forecast, forecast often..

— Edgar Fiedler

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

One thing I've noticed about history - you can search on newspapers going back hundreds of years, search for 'economic forecast,' you don't find…

— Robert J. Shiller

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All economic forecasts are subject to considerable uncertainty. There is always a wide range of plausible outcomes for important economic variables, including the federal…

— Jerome Powell

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

— Fred Singer

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

— Irving Kahn

“the prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence—prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence we have…

— Daniel Kahneman