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on Sunday March 17 2019, @04:52AM
from the Economics-and-science-may-be-related-after-all dept.
from the Economics-and-science-may-be-related-after-all dept.
The Experts Keep Getting the US Economy Wrong - and of course they do: economics is a mushy, highly politicized bag of conjecture. And, even if economists could somehow collect unbiased data, process it objectively, and report their analysis without fear of being replaced if they present an unpopular result, the "hard" scientists continue to tear away at the foundations of reality with a proof that Wigner was right about his friend after all: there are irreconcilable realities at the foundations of particle physics, we're just living in a probabilistic consensus above the paradoxes. At least, for a little while.
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About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 17 2019, @02:18PM
From my quote file: "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." (Laurence J. Peter)