Believe Quote by William Gilmore Simms

Economists give their predictions to a digit after the decimal point to show that they have a sense of humor.

— Anonymous

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

— Edgar Fiedler

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

— Warren Buffett

Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations…

— Barry Ritholtz

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh…

— Brian Regan

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by…

— Robert J. Shiller

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

— Barry Ritholtz

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things…

— Robert Benchley

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Tim Harford