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'Financial experts' is something of an oxymoron methinks. Collectively they've proved themselves pretty inept at economic forecasting. I'm not really dissing them as in my opinion it's a field in which the future is damned difficult to predict; I just wish they would admit this and the public realise that it's all at best educated guesses

Not sure that there was a concerted effort to discredit warnings/forecasts by either camp other than the wholly expected dismissing by the Leave camp of the guesses by a pro-Remaining 'expert' and vice versa. On the contrary both camps bombarded us with forecasts of great tidings and woe, presumably in the belief Joe Public would be swayed. So all was fair if somewhat testicular

I suspect Marble that there's a number of correspondents on this thread who are employed within those nebulous businesses that go under the umbrella term of 'financial services', hence the polarised opinions and rollercoasting FTSE wank-fest

<blockquote data-quote="Drone" data-source="post: 2543334" data-attributes="member: 65743">&#039;Financial experts&#039; is something of an oxymoron methinks. Collectively they&#039;ve proved themselves pretty inept at economic forecasting. I&#039;m not really dissing them as in my opinion it&#039;s a field in which the future is damned difficult to predict; I just wish they would admit this and the public realise that it&#039;s all at best educated guessesNot sure that there was a concerted effort to discredit warnings/forecasts by either camp other than the wholly expected dismissing by the Leave camp of the guesses by a pro-Remaining &#039;expert&#039; and vice versa. On the contrary both camps bombarded us with forecasts of great tidings and woe, presumably in the belief Joe Public would be swayed. So all was fair if somewhat testicularI suspect Marble that there&#039;s a number of correspondents on this thread who are employed within those nebulous businesses that go under the umbrella term of &#039;financial services&#039;, hence the polarised opinions and rollercoasting FTSE wank-fest <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Drone, post: 2543334, member: 65743"] 'Financial experts' is something of an oxymoron methinks. Collectively they've proved themselves pretty inept at economic forecasting. I'm not really dissing them as in my opinion it's a field in which the future is damned difficult to predict; I just wish they would admit this and the public realise that it's all at best educated guesses Not sure that there was a concerted effort to discredit warnings/forecasts by either camp other than the wholly expected dismissing by the Leave camp of the guesses by a pro-Remaining 'expert' and vice versa. On the contrary both camps bombarded us with forecasts of great tidings and woe, presumably in the belief Joe Public would be swayed. So all was fair if somewhat testicular I suspect Marble that there's a number of correspondents on this thread who are employed within those nebulous businesses that go under the umbrella term of 'financial services', hence the polarised opinions and rollercoasting FTSE wank-fest :) [/QUOTE]

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