Poor Pearlstein

These seem to be some lessons of the 2006 Local Economy Challenge. Meet the person who most accurately predicted how the Washington region would fare last year: Kathleen Walsh Carr, the president of Cardinal Bank Washington. And the least accurate? We’ll get to that in a minute.

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At the other end of the results spectrum was Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein. In his 2006 forecast, he presented a view of rapidly slowing growth.