Brick

The 24-hour news and/or busi­ness chan­nels, which can’t fill the time with analy­ses and opin­ions — fresh infor­ma­tion only takes a cou­ple of min­utes — more fre­quently use pre­dic­tions to round out the cycle. Can you take their fore­casts to the bank? Can your bank then take them to the Fed? Never mind the truth, can any­one …