Perhaps his biggest problem, though, was the self-fulfilling perception that he could not win.
More alarming may be the self-fulfilling prophecies that this skepticism cultivates.
The first-half is that the self-fulfilling panic in the bond markets which reared its ugly head again in July is unlikely to return.
The downward slope becomes the same self-fulfilling prophecy that the upslope represented, just in the opposite direction.
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Both Italy and Spain face the threat of a self-fulfilling fear in the markets that they are fated to suffer a Greek-style financial emergency.
Or to put it another way, fears about solvency of sovereigns translates into potential liquidity problems for banks - which can then turn the solvency fears into self-fulfilling prophesies.
And, the authors point out, there is the possibility of self-fulfilling prophecies.
There is the potential here for a self-fulfilling prophecy, in the manner of a bank run.
Undoubtedly, they do not want to short-circuit the political process by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy or by driving a backlash.
But if enough people expect a negative effect, the fear will be self-fulfilling.
Everyone repeats the news with the same grim perspective and soon enough it just becomes well accepted fact, and runs the risk of being self-fulfilling.
Market forces would have helped the target become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Screens and advertising budgets are ruthlessly cut back, and the film is harder to see and to know about so the doom scenario becomes self-fulfilling.
And that anxiety has the propensity to become self-fulfilling.
The research error becomes self-fulfilling.
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"The only risk in terms of the comparison is of a self-fulfilling prophecy, " he said.
This kind of budgeting process makes the warnings of conservatives a self-fulfilling prophesy.
If he's wrong - if there is, in fact, a faster growth path available, which would not undermine market confidence, then the government's strategy could be making the supply side problem a self-fulfilling prophesy, by condemning us to unnecessarily slow growth which could have permanent effects on Britain's potential output.
There is also a danger that the market may turn its fears into a self-fulfilling prophecy by starving needy companies of cash and forcing them over the edge.
The Bush steamroller is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of victory that flattens everybody else.
Playing hard to get is a form of marketing, since in the right circumstances demand is a self-fulfilling phenomenon.
To some extent the setting of operational targets is self-fulfilling.
Questioned about the ECB exceeding its bounds, and threatening its independence, by asking sovereign states to adhere to deficit and fiscal targets, the ECB chief explained that large parts of the Eurozone are generating adverse, self-fulfilling expectations given past policy mistakes.
The growing popularity of this sort of indexing can become a self-fulfilling prophecy as a disproportionately enormous amount of money flows into the large companies that dominate the index.
The euro zone is showing the symptoms of an internal balance-of-payments crisis, with self-fulfilling runs on countries, because at bottom that is the nature of its troubles.
Semi-fixed systems cannot withstand the assault of integrated capital markets: they are prone to self-fulfilling panics.
However, Israel now seems to have noticed the danger that its prophecies might become self-fulfilling.
They also invited speculation from currency traders placing self-fulfilling bets that the peg would not hold.
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