We asked Allen Sinai, the prominent economic forecaster, about how important the stock market is to the economic recovery.

FORBES: The Underappreciated Impact Of Stocks On The Economy

Economic forecaster David Levy pegs the chances of a new global recession starting within a year or so at around 60%.

FORBES

Hatzius can be considered the most acute economic forecaster of the last six years, having won the award for the 2005-2008 period, and now for 2007-2010.

FORBES: Goldman's Hatzius: U.S. To Avoid Recession As Bernanke Unveils QE3, Europe Doomed

For example, one economic forecaster, the Item Club, said that the UK would generate about three-quarters of the revenues from any FTT if it was applied across the European Union.

BBC: Pounds and euros

As I wrote in my earlier blog, the IFS and pretty much every other economic forecaster expected the OBR to raise its estimate of the structural current deficit, given what we knew about the way they forecast these things.

BBC: The Bank, the OBR and Mr Osborne

Forecaster Nouriel Roubini suggests people nervous about the global economic climate hoard cans of chopped meat instead.

WSJ: In Thailand, Those Seeking A Golden Glow Rush to the Spa

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development does not exactly have a shining record as a forecaster.

BBC: Britain's zig-zag economy