The Chaffee Local Food Coalition is seeking new coalition members from across the county’s food system sector and will host an informational meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Soulcraft Brewing,
Damien Venuto: The one thing Kiwi businesses don t need to hear in 2021
10 Dec, 2020 04:52 AM
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Predictions are notoriously difficult to get right. Photo / Getty Images
OPINION: Judging by the recent stream of emails and social media posts offering predictions and trends on what to expect in 2021, you d think 2020 was just a standard nothing to see here kind of year.
It takes a particularly acute case of audacity to swirl the tea leaves after the past 12 months and pretend to see patterns revealing what comes next.
Anyone venturing such predictions might bear in mind economist Irving Fisher s infamous claim, just before the Great Crash of 1929, that stock prices had reached a permanently high plateau . And even in less extreme times, numerous studies have shown that humans are notoriously bad at predicting the futures that don t benefit them.