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Ancient and modern

The Treasury’s prophecies vs the Sibyl

Roman auspices were probably more reliable than Treasury forecasts

23 April 2016

9:00 AM

23 April 2016

9:00 AM

The Treasury has announced that an EU exit ‘could leave households £4,300 a year worse off’. Since that only ‘could’ be the case, it could also not be the case, and given the accuracy of the Treasury’s prophecies for one year ahead, let alone 14, one wonders what odds the Treasury would offer on that outcome.

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