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Economists are fools

Economists are fools


Posted By on Dec 3, 2015 in Columns | 1 comment

I hate to lead with such an aggressive title, but over the years, nobody (apart from bankers) has upset me more than economists. I have been reading the stuff published by economists for decades. In China, where I worked for 12 years, GDP growth became like a religion. Thousands of articles were written on the topic, each of them quoting economists.

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Thierry Xerri, the nuclear counsellor at the French Embassy in Tokyo who addressed the Delphi Network a couple of weeks ago, argues that we are fundamentally safe from a nuclear disaster in Japan. By that, he covers the full spectrum of nuclear restarts, reactor safety, the current state of…

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