 This time is different. Market prognosticators are all over the place because of huge policy-making mistakes. Now, this is where there's kind of a pox on both houses. Spending, money printing, and more that screw with the normal analytical tools. The politics and policies of the two presidential candidates add even more confusion. In other words, it's not a great time to be an economic forecaster, or for that matter, an investor, or a consumer, or an American worker trying to prepare for the future. I concur.