To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I love economists. Don’t you? How could you not? What’s great about economists is that, no matter what the current economic conditions””recession or boom times; high unemployment or low unemployment; inflation or deflation; or whatever””you can always find an economist who will correctly predict the future state of the economy. That’s true regardless of the [...]
The few university economics courses I took two or three decades ago don’t qualify me to pontificate on the economy, but, considering the global economic downturn, the economy is a serious concern for any adult with at least half a brain. I realize that the “half a brain” proviso lets a lot of adults off [...]
Economists at the Institute of Social Analysis and Normative Economics (INSANE), a Stockholm-based think-tank, recently discovered evidence suggesting that existing methods of calculating GDP grossly understate the global economy. “A few years ago, INSANE economists noticed an interesting phenomenon,” said Bea Guile, INSANE spokesperson. “They began to receive emails from people who, unsolicited, described their [...]