It’s easy to make predictions. Making correct predictions, on the other hand, is a lot harder.
One economic forecaster successfully predicted our current 4.2% inflation rate months ahead of time, well before even the Federal Reserve caught up.
Now that same gold-standard forecaster has issued updated predictions about what investors can expect in 2026 and beyond. Here’s what they said, and why we had better hope they’re wrong.
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A proven winner
The forecaster is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It’s an international agency that collects and standardizes economic data. It also provides policy analysis and what have often turned out to be eerily accurate economic projections. Small wonder that the U.S. State Department calls the OECD “one of the world’s largest and most reliable sources of statistical, economic, and social…
