In fact, he forecasted that the price of doing nothing could even approach 20 of GDP.

And it's speculated that some of their interest in the arts was designed to counter Soviet communism and promote what it considered to be pro American thoughts and aesthetics.

Those focused on emerging markets are emphasizing accelerating growth, with some forecasts projecting a 5 increase in world output.

Ten years ago, as the Asian financial crisis savaged Indonesia s economy, many experts predicted that the country would become unstable, if not splinter.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

A year later, with the Fed not having moved aggressively enough for him, Krugman divined that it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment.

Isaac Asimov also speculated that, in the event that he had not been killed while in the service of the British Empire, Moseley might very well have been awarded the 1916 Nobel Prize in Physics, which, along with the prize for chemistry, was not awarded to anyone that year.

In other words, if Barroso fears costs of 20 of GDP in the year 2100, the 0.5 payment every year of this century will do virtually nothing to change that cost.

When the Human Genome Project published the first draft of the fully sequenced human genome in 2000, Henry Gee, an editor of the journal Nature, predicted that scientists would be able to alter entire organisms out of all recognition to suit our needs and tastes by 2099.

John Maynard Keynes, in his 1930 essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, speculated that, within a hundred years, that is, by 2030, higher incomes would reduce the average workday to a mere three hours, for a total workweek of only 15 hours.

Mao famously speculated on the nature of contradictions in a 1937 essay The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the fundamental law of nature and of society.