President Romney, struggling markets and other spot-on predictions of 2013
By Jefferson Morley, WashPost, Published: December 27
Jefferson Morley is a Washington-based writer and author of “Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835.”
Humanity’s faith in predictions was tested this time last year, when the floods, famines and other disasters predicted by the end of the ancient Mayan calendar failed to materialize.
But a look back at 2013 shows that the art of divination is alive and well.
As predicted by political analyst Michael Barone, Mitt Romney arrived for the presidential inauguration in January with a mandate for change, after having won the 2012 election handily.
Romney was constrained, though, by the busted economy he inherited from President Obama — and the economic picture promptly grew worse. “Watch for unemployment to climb above 9 percent,” right-wing sage Cal Thomas wrote a year ago. He got that exactly right.
(More here.)
Jefferson Morley is a Washington-based writer and author of “Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835.”
Humanity’s faith in predictions was tested this time last year, when the floods, famines and other disasters predicted by the end of the ancient Mayan calendar failed to materialize.
But a look back at 2013 shows that the art of divination is alive and well.
As predicted by political analyst Michael Barone, Mitt Romney arrived for the presidential inauguration in January with a mandate for change, after having won the 2012 election handily.
Romney was constrained, though, by the busted economy he inherited from President Obama — and the economic picture promptly grew worse. “Watch for unemployment to climb above 9 percent,” right-wing sage Cal Thomas wrote a year ago. He got that exactly right.
(More here.)
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