The most striking feature of the forecast of all, however, concerns the minor parties.
In the wider world, we forecast a striking gap between surging emerging markets and sluggish rich economies.
The IMF revises its growth forecasts with striking regularity.
Perhaps the most striking trend in the latest forecast is the long string of deficits that would occur under almost any situation.
Scanning the latest issue's budget-balance forecasts, it is striking that of the forty-two largeconomieses described, all but one are likely to produce budget deficits in 2010.
With respect to the policy-relevant implications of existing forecasting models, one striking finding is that "partial democracies" were found to be at significantly increased risk for the onset of different types of political crises such as civil war, adverse regime changes, and political instability than either full democracies or autocracies across a range of studies [12, 13, 14, 15].
Together, the operating profits of the big firms tracked by the S&P Europe 350 index rose by a striking 78% last year; they are forecast to grow by a further 30% this year.
Equally striking, though, is what we see forecast for 2018.
There are a number of striking assertions by the Office of Budget Responsibility, whose forecasts underpinned the chancellor's Autumn Statement.
Just on this week, Gold Fields, one of world's largest gold producers, fired 8,500 workers who had refused to stop striking, and the government was forced to cut back on its economic forecast because of labor unrest.
Forecast studies included those for which forecasts were prominent.
