A short story about hubris and concession

Today the norwegian financial press was gathered to "fedwatch", as Norges Bank were presenting their interest rate update for December.

Norwegian pundits were pretty confident; no rate hike today. International pundits were leaning towards a rate hike. When a confronted with this discrepancy a Norwegian pundit stated: "we have the finger on the pulse here in Norway, foreigners don't"

Result: Rate hike

Comment on the result from Senior Economist in DNB (Norway's largest bank): "This is not an exact science"

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