She was so convinced by what she saw and heard, that she became unflappable in her forecast.
But developments are in line with her forecasts, Fiorina said in a conference call: "We said we expected a steady recovery in IT spending, not an explosive one".
In contrast, her forecast calls for a flat to down month, based on her expectations of a layoff of 75,000 Census Bureau workers and the creation of 50,000 to 75,000 private sector jobs.
In the first quarter, Whitney updated her forecast to a $2.7 trillion reduction in unused credit card lines by the end of 2010.
The Croatian artist Dora Budor pays homage to the project in her sculpture "The Forecast (New York Situations)," pictured above, which is part of the High Line's open-air exhibition "Mutations".
By comparing the costs and productivity of the shipyards in her sample, Ms Kalouptsidi forecasts how the market might have developed in the absence of China's subsidies.
The Prophetess failed, however, to forecast something in her own life: she never thought that she would become the caretaker of her husband's dreadlocks which, through the years, have inched slowly down his back, measuring the length of their love story.
She claims that she "understands the company's business profile" and has confidence in her "forecasting .The mayor and the governor may be powerless, but the laws of mathematics apply to all jurisdictions.
(See "Whitney: Bank Losses Through 2010").. Whitney, who recently founded the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, believes that banks have still not properly reserved against greater-than-expected losses in home prices, placing her earnings forecasts for 2009 and 2010 lower than consensus, almost across the board.
We then compared the model performances in fitting to the data and in forecasting future observations.
Perhaps the most impressive gains have been in hurricane forecasting.
