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Economists, like coin flips, only paid more

2013-02-04 22:04:00.624236+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Reserve Bank of Australia looks back at economic predictions over the past 20 years, and finds randomness:

"The reality is that a random walk is what you would get from chance," said Bill Mitchell, a professor of economics at Charles Darwin University.

"The Reserve Bank employs numbers of people on very high pay and what they're admitting now is that their - all of this so-called science - has produced nothing more than what a roll of the dice could produce."

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