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Economists Quotes
Forecasts, doubts, and the numbers game
Armies of strategists and fund managers get paid to guess which securities will pay off each quarter, yet these quotes admit forecasting rarely lives up to its reputation.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.
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My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
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Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
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I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
- Perception
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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
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Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
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The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.
- Clients
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Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.
- Market
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Economists often get the market wrong.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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- Nov 07, 2020