rare example of a question in the headline where the answer is yes

Wait isn't the answer No here? The dots are clearly clustered mostly in the correct half of the graph?

jimnotgym an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't that the nature of futurology. You are always wrong in some way. That doesn't necessarily make it useless

	▲	hgomersall an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Given that many economic predictions are really about pushing an agenda, they are not at all useless, or at least, would be better measured against that criteria. I suspect the reason we still have neoliberal economics is precisely because despite its manifest failures of prediction, it still pushes the right agenda to be supported.