Beware of strategists wielding rulers. Decent third quarter GDP numbers have sent analysts scurrying off to increase their forecasts. We see this all too often, forecasts derived from extrapolating the newest trend, ratcheted up or down according to the latest surprise without regard to the deeper fundamentals that will really drive the eventual outcomes. Here lie elephant traps for asset allocators.
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