economist
n. An expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
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n. A surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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n. A person who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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Cynical Quotations
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
— Peter Drucker
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
— George Bernard Shaw
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