Take that thought a bit further, and perhaps it has a future as a privately run economic forecaster?

最后想得稍微深远些，或许它的将来会是一个私营的经济风向标。

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

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

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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.

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