Is there life in the old frog yet?

Well, we know predicting recessions is not an easy game. Indeed, one of the IMF’s chief macroeconomists, Prakash Loungani, recently observed that, over history, economists had consistently failed to predict 148 of the last 150 global recessions. If anything, the game of forecasting is getting harder, as any future recession will come off the back of central banks pumping $12 trillion into capital markets and setting interest rates to the lowest levels in history.