Economics Quote by Nate Silver

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the…

— Mark Zandi

Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions

— Barry Asmus

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

— Herbert Stein

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

— Peter Schwartz

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public…

— Edward Lazear

I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.

— Don Iveson

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

— Tim Harford

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

— George Orwell