« China facing permanent demand destruction? | Main | Could drug dealers be rehabilitated into the petchem industry? »

The flawed art of supply & demand forecasting

A guest blog - see Vanishing Post Boxes on this great blog by the authors of the book Freakonomics put me in mind of all those demand and supply forecasts that are invariably wrong.
Yes, I know I've written about this ad nauseum - see my last article on this subject.But surely, there has to be a better way of reaching investment decisions, a method that doesn't just cover your backside by using a consultant as a convenient whipping post.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.icis.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/4866

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on March 7, 2007 11:28 AM.

The previous post in this blog was China facing permanent demand destruction?.

The next post in this blog is Could drug dealers be rehabilitated into the petchem industry?.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.