Predicting the future (SIM)

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European Commission

Brussels

02/04/2014 - 00:00

Description

There is nothing more difficult to predict than the future...

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Speech Details

Language

(en) English

Speech number: 24970

Duration

09:17

Level

Intermediate

Use

Simultaneous

Domains

Economic and Monetary Affairs

General

Terminology

crystal ball, fortune teller, self-fulfilling prophecy, dartboard, economic forecast, aversion, to cut to the chase, to wriggle out, to dodge, self-negating prophecy, to couch predictions, to backtrack, Nostradamus, bang-on prediction, to vindicate, Amory Lovin, dartboard, bull’s eye, IMF, World Bank, The Economist, CEO’s, dustman

Notes

see also 24579, a shorter version of the same speech, suited for consecutive interpretation