View: In 2021, governments and central banks will sink their intrinsic differences and work as one

Forecasting is quintessentially an exercise in hubris. The pandemic has brought that home to us in abundant measure. Alas, hubris is also quintessentially human. In the mid-1960s, Nobel-winning economist Paul Samuelson had quipped, ‘The stock market has called nine of the last five recessions.’But the best of us, including multinationals like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), succumb. In January 2020, even as reports of a strange and highly