crystal ball

The greatest scammer of all time owned an actual crystal ball. Now you can buy it, or his embroidered velveteen loafers, and tons of bull statues.

If the Zhu Zhu Pets taught a lesson, it's that a bit of technology and a low price tag can go a long way. Toy makers are taking that experience to heart.

Our crystal ball says: Washington to get tough with the media industry, Jay Leno will leave prime time; MGM will finally be sold; Disney will discover video games; and maybe somebody will figure out how to make money on online content.

From the crystal ball of A Roel Schouwenberg: Google Wave, the iPhone and Android mobile phones will come under heavy cyber attacks in 2010 ...

Along with his sharp tongue, conservative radio pundit Rush Limbaugh has proved to have a pretty accurate crystal ball.

He told TODAY that critics would come out of the woodwork to slam his bid to buy football’s St. Louis Rams, and sure enough, they have.

If one took her or his crystal ball out to do some soothsaying, he or she would be hard-pressed to argue against eBooks one day dominating the book market.

He or she need only to look at how the laptop overran the tower personal computer market with the right price and technology.

(North Carolina State University) You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy.

You need a statistical model. A new method from North Carolina State University can help researchers determine which economic variables they should focus on by identifying whether a variable can be predicted.