And all of this is without the £25bn Brexit "black hole" that the Institute of Fiscal Studies has just predicted by the end of this parliament.
A leading policewoman has just predicted that British-born jihadis returning from Syria will pose a lethal security threat for "many, many, many years".
Certainly, gas import terminals in the US are being turned into export facilities, while the American Chemistry Council has just predicted that US chemical exports will grow by nearly 50% over the next five years.
A think-tank has just predicted that some 900 municipalities, or half of the total, will have disappeared by 2040, as women of childbearing age migrate to big cities.
And given that the International Monetary Fund has just predicted that global growth, currently estimated at 3.1 per cent for 2015, will be 3.4 per cent in 2016 and 3.6 per cent in 2017, the overall outlook is far from alarming.
Financial data provider Experian has just predicted that one in 10 shops on the average British high street will be closed by the end of February, and 15% of all Britain's shops will shut by the end of the year; small market towns, they believe, will be hit hardest.
There are a number of ways to measure a mobile platform's relative success, but if you're looking at the number of mobile app downloads as the metric of choice, then the analysts at ABI Research have just predicted that Android will win it in 2013.
Worse, the National Weather Service had just issued a revised forecast, predicting a thirty-foot crest — a record — on Saturday, which was only forty-eight hours away.
Given A.'s fertility history, the doctor predicted she had just a 5 percent chance of getting pregnant.
Worst case, he predicts, "I'll have just $1 billion in revenue".
