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Experts Kill Me. Economic Experts, That Is. Corporations, Foundations, Publications And Governments Pay Them By The Bucketful, And They Fill Buckets With Forecasts That Change More Frequently Than White-collar, Workers Do Shirts. What Lies Ahead Is The Usual Title. What Lies Would Often Be More Appropriate. If Women's Hemlines Changed As Rapidly As An Economist's Forecasts, The Fashion People And The Textile Industry Would Be More Profitable Than Any Other. In Fact, If All The Country's Economists Were Laid End To End, They Still Wouldn't Reach A Conclusion.

-Malcolm Forbes

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Experts Kill Me. Economic

Malcolm Forbes

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Experts Kill Me. Economic Experts, That Is. Corporations, Foundations, Publications And Governments Pay Them By The Bucketful, And They Fill Buckets With Forecasts That Change More Frequently Than White-collar, Workers Do Shirts. What Lies Ahead Is The Usual Title. What Lies Would Often Be More Appropriate. If Women's Hemlines Changed As Rapidly As An Economist's Forecasts, The Fashion People And The Textile Industry Would Be More Profitable Than Any Other. In Fact, If All The Country's Economists Were Laid End To End, They Still Wouldn't Reach A Conclusion.

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