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Budget and economic projections 1998-08 · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated

Budget and economic projections, 1998-08

US Congressional Budget Office · all publications · published 1998-08 · 5 predictions

Publishers Envisioning Hype Cycle explorer Forecast vs actual

partial← 1998-03 1999-01 →

Gaps: economic projections (summer/fall updates usually revise the economic forecast; no economic data file for this baseline is posted on CBO's data page).

github.com/US-CBO/eval-projections/blob/main/input_data/base

1998

not graded
deficit, Total (baselines.csv)
federal budget deficit in 1998: 62.973 billion USD (negative = deficit)
cbo-projections-1998-08-001

1999

not graded
deficit, Total (baselines.csv)
federal budget deficit in 1999: 79.791 billion USD (negative = deficit)
cbo-projections-1998-08-002

2000

not graded
deficit, Total (baselines.csv)
federal budget deficit in 2000: 78.998 billion USD (negative = deficit)
cbo-projections-1998-08-003

2001

not graded
deficit, Total (baselines.csv)
federal budget deficit in 2001: 85.704 billion USD (negative = deficit)
cbo-projections-1998-08-004

2002

not graded
deficit, Total (baselines.csv)
federal budget deficit in 2002: 138.613 billion USD (negative = deficit)
cbo-projections-1998-08-005

Data, code and grading rules are public at github.com/envisioning/hindsight. Data under CC BY 4.0 (the BCB Focus survey under ODbL), code under MIT. Every rule is in the decision log. Think a verdict is wrong? Open a dispute.