However, viewers shouldn't expect the big, bad villain of last season to be back in some bizarre or unusual way.
A month ago, when an initial gauge of first-quarter economic growth came in surprisingly weak, many policy makers and economists expected the bad news to prove fleeting.
It cost a huge sum by local standards, about $850, to have them carved and to put on the festivities associated with their installation, and Mr. Ngowa fully expects the bad luck to return now that the statues are gone.
The company expects the bad news to continue as it awaits the introduction of small cars to appeal to buyers, shell-shocked by petrol prices at $4 a gallon.
If history is our guide, we might expect the real bad guys to pull off this campaign to the public and the courts.
Unfortunately, now it is obvious that Palestinians were right to expect the worst in bad faith negotiations by Israel.
One possibility is that Wall Street investors expect the Democrats to be bad for the market and sell their stocks before elections that the Democratic candidate is likely to win.
We expect the recent spate of bad news to be more of a hiccup, not the beginning of a trend," he said.
New York can expect the same payoff from its bad bet.
