"Murder and mayhem are hardly what economic forecasters have in mind."

President Clinton and economic forecasters greeted the news as more evidence that the country was pulling itself out of a long, hard slump.

But lately, the disagreement among economic forecasters about what will happen next has widened.

The nation's economic forecasters are all but unanimous in predicting that the coming year will not bring a recession.

It was astonishing how little political and economic forecasters ever really knew.

Probably not, in the view of most economic forecasters.

But other economic forecasters place less emphasis on the wealth effect.

In the long term, economic forecasters say, all states are becoming more average.

Not even China's most optimistic economic forecasters had seen this coming.

This is a bet that many economic forecasters say is a good one.