It is the self-fulfilling prophesy.

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Market forces would have helped the target become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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This kind of budgeting process makes the warnings of conservatives a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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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.

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Second, there were fears that touting offensive IW might engender enmity on the part of adversaries in an act of self-fulfilling prophesy.

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The sponsors' curse seemed to become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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Then, there is the oddity that the forecasters may have some small ability to make their forecast a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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Yet the worry remains that if all creditors face the risk of loss in a crisis, they will start a run, creating a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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