Ce sont des budgets qui deviennent un peu des budgets de devins, de gens qui essaient de deviner l'avenir, et on se rend compte, quand on lit les journaux du passé, que la plupart des ministres des Finances, comme les économistes des grandes banques et comme beaucoup d'économistes qui trônent dans nos universités, ont mal prédit l'avenir.
In a way, these budgets become what I would call crystal ball budgets prepared by people who try to predict the future, but when we read newspapers from previous years, we can see that most finance ministers, as well as economists from the major banks and from the academic world, were wrong in their predictions.