The Financial ‘Meltdown’ and Football
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has talked this weekend of a ‘meltdown’ in the world’s financial system which could lead to a further 20 per cent being wiped off stock exchange values. We don’t claim to be economic forecasters on this page, but one of the difficulties with statements of this kind is the so-called ‘Oedipus effect’: making the prediction increases the chances of it occurring. Some of the commentary in recent days has come from people whose agenda is the failure of the Premiership.