David Rosenberg is a perma-bear. He is trotted out like a circus pony every time a news organization wants to print a scary headline about the markets. His analysis offers nothing of distinct value because he does not change his opinion.
David Rosenberg has successfully called 86 of the last 3 recessions.
This is a useless article, written via the opinion of one of the most useless economists.
I find it fascinating that in English risk is always negative but chance isn’t always positive.
In my native language there’s a 15% chance that there won’t be a recession and an 85% risk of there being a recession.
“chance” in my mind always means “less than likely”. Rather, if there is a “chance” of something, it is likely not going to happen.
I think the word you’re looking for in English that can have both a negative and positive connotation is “possibility” for a “less than likely” outcome… Its interchangeable with “chance” in most cases.
No. However, I thought you comment meant you interested in discussing the usage of English language in popular context and the oddities in which it was sometimes used. If you’re looking for absolute rules of language usage I’m not sure you’re going to find it.
Sorry, that sounds a lot harsher reading it than I meant for it to sound. In the context of the news article linked I found your less than likely funny. :)
If we’re speaking of personal feelings in how the words should be used then mine is that the possibility of an occurrence would be called a chance if I want it to occur, a risk if I don’t, unless the possibility reaches 100% or 0% as then it is no longer a chance nor a risk but a certainty.
Well it’s a backward looking model which explains why it aligns so perfectly with the last 2 recessions. There is certainly value to models like this, and all economic models should be based on data, but it really should show more than 20ish years of history. My guess is that it is only made based on those years, and it doesn’t fit the rest of history nearly so well which is why those years are omitted.
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