Can we please, for the love of God, finally admit that mainstream economists are just astrologists for Wall Street bros

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/us-recession-yield-curve.html

Opinion | The U.S. Economy Looked Like it Was in for a Recession. It Wasn’t.

A tale of a disaster wrongly foretold.

The New York Times

@gwensnyder

Ah economics. A field that decided the real world was too complex, so instead it created a fake world and decided to study that instead.

Totally normal field that everyone should take seriously.

@cian @gwensnyder

Always hilarious to hear economists attempting to defend "praxeology."

@sphinx @gwensnyder

There's a pretty funny study that found that the only people who behave like homo-economicus are trained economists.

Turns out that that it takes an expensive graduate school education to create a 'rational economic agent'.