David D’Amato, Investor’s Business Daily –
Predicting the future, even in a game with simple rules and few players is incredibly difficult, even for experts. We might imagine that convincing people of the truth of this apparently uncontroversial proposition would be easy. (Consider how frequently the predictions of the best and brightest fail.) But we would be wrong. Politicians, bureaucrats, and other governmental actors regularly, if indirectly, claim the ability to predict the future, and we readily believe them. READ MORE