Happy End of the World Day

I haven’t bothered to read up much on all of rapture discussions, but I’m going to take a leap and say we’re talking midnight Israeli time? So 5:00PM EST? I’ll be on a train.

Here’s an amusing list of failed apocalypse predictions. I like how Pat Robertson and Issac Newton are on a list together.

Via Barry Ritholtz:

There is an Evangelist named Harold Camping, who claims the world will end tomorrow.

He has violated the first rule of forecasting: You can give a price target ($0) or a date (tomorrow) but never both at once.

Besides, the end of world forecast carries additional risks. People have been making Armageddon forecasts for, like, forever. So far, not one has paid off.

And Elvis Costello: