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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.