"It was the most brilliant forecasting call I can think of in my entire career as a professional economist," said Laurence H. Meyer, a Fed governor at the time of that debate who acknowledged he was a "grudging" convert to Mr. Greenspan's views.
He was highly intelligent, and a brilliant future was forecast for him by his tutors at both Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
In fact what would normally be counted an exceptional result was slightly less brilliant than the forecasts.
He is modest about his accomplishments, but he achieved a high profile when he created a brilliant and innovative computer program for forecasting the performance of baseball players, and later a system for predicting the outcome of political races.
Acura, Honda's upscale division, introduced the NSX Concept at the 2012 Detroit auto show, promising that it forecast a coming successor to the brilliant, dearly departed NSX sports car.
How the original Clark brothers, Cyrus and James, were brilliant at growing production, but initially pretty hopeless at forecasting and finance, and had to be bailed out several times by other helpful Victorian business families.
The forecast for the last two days of the match may not be brilliant, but that does at least indicate more cloud cover.
The Brilliant Control also includes Amazon's Alexa assistant, so your can ask for weather forecasts, play music, control devices, and even create preset scenes, thus controlling the mood (climate, lighting, etc). in different rooms around your home.
Just how brilliant the fall colors become will depend on the weather between now and mid-October, a long-term forecast that meteorologists say they cannot make in any reliable way.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
