The Macro Series: All about economists

The Macro Series: All about economists
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Simon Robertson
Economists are like nuclear weapons. You only have them because the other guys do.Job DescriptionFormally, they study the relationships between a society's resources, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Practically speaking, they are intellectual spokespeople tasked with having more economic rigour than their competitors and peers. This is how their employer wins more business (insert bank or broker here). The consequences of their predictions (they call them forecasts) often don’t really matter,...

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