ClaimsJeremy Grantham

“But if both events occur together, it will very probably break the commodity markets en masse.”

Jeremy Grantham, GMO co-founder, letter author April 2011 GMO Quarterly Letter April 2011: Time to Wake Up (GMO) archived copy

Prediction Economics and markets

If China stumbles and weather improves together, commodity markets will very probably break en masse.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

The conditional has no horizon, and 'very probably' is a vague probabilistic claim.

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Jeremy Grantham, “If China stumbles and weather improves together, commodity markets will very probably break en masse.” (said April 2011). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0c65036aff45, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0c65036aff45

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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