misforecast

Uncoincidentally, as the Marxists might say, its greatest intelligence failure became with the greatest failure of Soviet foreign policy: the misforecast belief that a Soviet invasion could foster a stable, socialist Afghanistan.

The Years Of Magical Thinking | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Indeed, nearly all the economists misforecast this latest downturn.

GuruFocus Updates 2009

I don’t remotely have enough knowledge about the forthcoming Iranian presidential election — and after so many misforecast assessments over so many years, I’m dubious that anyone here in the U.S. really does — but I would really like every word of this Andrew Sullivan post to be true.

In Hope | ATTACKERMAN 2009