Testing Last Year's Predictions

I'm not as much of a predictive futurist as some of my friends and colleagues, and I do like to play in the space once a year – right about now.  I'm going to do this in three steps. Evaluate last year's predictions, make this year's predictions, talk about what we need to do this year but that I'm not predicting we will do.  So here is step one, a look at what I predicted last year and how close I came.

What I said about the economy: Don't look for magic bullets.  There is no one bailout big ...