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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. ↗

— Nate Silver

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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

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People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa. ↗

— William Foege

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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing. ↗

— Peter Lynch

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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