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Economists Speak

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https://amp.ft.com/content/d29b4cbe-0fa ... ssion=true

163 leading Edonomists have their say. (In support of Labour given theyre economists, and understand economics).
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So as to bring balance, they are left leaning economists.
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I used to work in the Banking business and all the economists I had to listen to had 20/20 hindsight and a ready-made excuse as to why they were wrong.If you laid every economist in the world end to end you would never reach a conclusion.
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Mr Wu wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:37 am I used to work in the Banking business and all the economists I had to listen to had 20/20 hindsight and a ready-made excuse as to why they were wrong.If you laid every economist in the world end to end you would never reach a conclusion.
I find the same applies to weatherman.

There's only one economist worth consulting and that is Mr K Marx.
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Also didn’t the queen once say “if your all so clever why didn’t you predict (the last crash) that?”
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Thor wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:15 am Also didn’t the queen once say “if your all so clever why didn’t you predict (the last crash) that?”
Quite a few did but they were ignored by rapacious capitalists and politicians too busy making money to listen to common sense.

Gordon Brown even said he had brought the cycle of boom and bust endemic within capitalism to an end. What a walloper.
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Yeah I remember that one, I think we all do! Still again if you look back through history successive governments failed to regulate the banking sector correctly. Eventually labour got burnt by it.
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But if you regulate before the crisis you're accused of being anti-business. Oh, and the devil.
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RedO wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:09 am https://amp.ft.com/content/d29b4cbe-0fa ... ssion=true

163 leading Edonomists have their say. (In support of Labour given theyre economists, and understand economics).
So. No complaints about the timing of this report.
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Thor wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:23 am So as to bring balance, they are left leaning economists.
The boarding equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and singing something inane.
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Thor wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:23 am So as to bring balance, they are left leaning economists.
Perhaps they're left leaning because they're economists?
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Thor wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:15 am Also didn’t the queen once say “if your all so clever why didn’t you predict (the last crash) that?”
They were probably unaware that Prince Philip was organising it.
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HTD now theres a conspiracy if I ever heard one!
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dOh Nut wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:14 am
RedO wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 7:09 am https://amp.ft.com/content/d29b4cbe-0fa ... ssion=true

163 leading Edonomists have their say. (In support of Labour given theyre economists, and understand economics).
So. No complaints about the timing of this report.
When would you have liked them to have issued their support of Labour's manifesto you bell? :lol:
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Economists are generally wrong with their predictions and then re-write history.
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