This is Planet Money from NPR.

Hello and welcome back to Planet Money Predictions.

The show where economic forecasters make economic forecasts.

And then come back later to glow about what they got right and own what they got wrong.

I'm Jacob Goldstein.

And I'm Mary Childs.

Last June on our first episode of Planet Money Predictions,

we welcomed two economic forecasters who made economic predictions about three of the most pressing economic issues of the economic moment.

Home prices, jobs, inflation.

Today we'll find out who knows and who got host.

And through it all we'll try to understand what's going on in the U.S. economy.

That's on Planet Money Predictions after this message.

Jacob, you actually don't work at Planet Money anymore.

You are launching a new show.

Yam lunch in a new podcast, it's called What's Your Problem to Show About Business and Technology.

But you are back today because you made a promise.

I made a promise, Mary, with you on Planet Money last year when you and I hosted a show where we asked two economic forecasters

to come on Planet Money and predict what the economy was going to do for the rest of 2021.

And we all agreed on the show that we would come back on in 2022 to see how the forecasters did.

In particular, to see whose forecasters got closer to what really happened.

Yes. And last year our contestants made three forecasters on home prices, jobs, and inflation.

So now, today we will check their answers. Whoever got closer to the right answer on each gets a point.

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