[thescriptkiddie]

rare example of a question in the headline where the answer is yes

[zipy124]

Wait isn't the answer No here? The dots are clearly clustered mostly in the correct half of the graph?

[cman1444]

Shhhhh, it's way more fun to spout cynical and clever quips about a publication without backing it up with any reasoning.

[jimnotgym]

Isn't that the nature of futurology. You are always wrong in some way. That doesn't necessarily make it useless

[hgomersall]

Given that many economic predictions are really about pushing an agenda, they are not at all useless, or at least, would be better measured against that criteria. I suspect the reason we still have neoliberal economics is precisely because despite its manifest failures of prediction, it still pushes the right agenda to be supported.