backward-looking

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For the LFI's Fourreau, the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature".

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

He says the Fed talks too much about the near-term path of rates and leans too heavily on backward-looking data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

That view has flipped, the analyst says, with geopolitics now overshadowing backward-looking 1Q results, though he says singled-out “outsized surprises” are still possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

The delay is "a worryingly backward-looking political signal", while "any security gain is far from guaranteed", Beatrice Petrovich, senior energy analyst at energy think tank Ember, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

This backward-looking astronomer had been born in 1611, which perhaps explains his old-fashioned attitude, and christened Johann Höwelcke, but Latinized his name to Johannes Hevelius.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin