With the ongoing banking crisis and stock markets around the world continuing to fall it is possible that the best paid experts and talent in the future will not be bankers but those able to predict trends in business.

With everyone from Governments, businesses and individuals wanting answers to the current economic questions perhaps the best paid experts over the next two years will be those able to predict the future.

Of course the information being from futurologists, and paid for by business, will need to be based upon historical precedent and expert analysis. The individual in the street, however, might still have to rely on the astronomer’s predictions in their daily papers.