Why are forecasters so often wrong? « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

"This week RBS has forecast an equity and credit crash within three months. It is unusual to get a direct warning from a major bank. Who forecast a UK housing crash last August when the sub-prime crisis hit? Nobody in my recollection and yet you could see estate agents...

Student eats key 'so he can keep partying'

"In the hunt for lost keys most people check under the sofa, in their jacket pocket and even back at the pub. But student Chris Foster had to have his stomach x-rayed before he could find where he left his keys...

Iran President Gets His Own Kiss Scandal

Why should Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty have all the fun? Iran's chief sabre-rattler Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has come under fire from  the media, who labeled his kissing of a former teacher's hand "indecent"....

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