We woz wrong

A MESSAGE was sent to all our writers, offering a bribe (a bottle of good wine) for every admission of a forecast gone wrong that ended up being used in this article. Amazingly (that's British irony, see article), the editor's wine cellar has not been much depleted as a result. A remarkable number of the non-confessors—the biggest category of replies—defended our apparent errors by quoting John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” Some even got the quote right, unlike Charlemagne in our issue of October 17th 1998.