It's that time of year when we look at the predictions made at the beginning of the year that were so wrong.
The worst foreign policy predictions include one made by BusinessWeek in January that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke would step down at the end of the year, that up to 50% of the US population would come down with swine flu and that British prime minister Gordon Brown would quit.
The worst business predictions include Barack Obama's business advisers telling him back in January that unemployment in the US would peak at 8%, claims by director-general of the World Health Organization that swine flu would threaten "all of humanity" and Golf Digest telling Barack Obama at the beginning of this year that he could learn from Tiger Woods because "Tiger never does anything that would make him look ridiculous".
If nothing else, it tells us to take the predictions for 2010 with a grain of salt.
no comment untill now