Expert Quote by Earl Wilson

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

— Laurence J. Peter

“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen. —Earl Wilson”

— Eric Siegel

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

— Robert Kuttner

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

— William Easterly

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good…

— Will Rogers

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

— Sylvia Porter

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

— Henry Hazlitt

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

— Michael Lewis

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in…

— Paul Saffo