Who said, "I'm a person who has a hard time saying no, 

and it gets me into trouble because I sometimes 

overreach"---Tony Montana or Larry Kudlow?

As Yastreblyansky points out, economists rarely agree on 

anything, but 7 out of 10 economists agree that Arthur Laffer

 is an idiot.

Sixty-two billionaires are now as rich as the poorest 

3.6 billion people on the planet.  With their wealth,

these billionaires have hired a coterie of distinguished

economists who say such income inequality is good.

Dweebs, Dorks, and Doofuses #43

Walter E. Block

World's Worst Yobs #296

Lant Pritchett

Carmen Reinhart, Harvard's spec-

tacularly mistaken economist, calls

Princeton's Paul Krugman 'spec-

tacularly uncivil'.  World yawns.

World's Worst Yobs #283

Steve Moore

Dweebs, Dorks, and Doofuses #15

Casey Mulligan

If you want to know what happens when you fall off a 

'fiscal cliff', take a good look at Alice Rivlin.

Michele Bachmann tells us that Ronald Reagan is "one of

 my great economists that I admire", unlike John Maynard

Keynes, "one of my great presidents that I don't admire."

"We are in the process of watching," says Michele Bachmann, 

"the deconstruction of free market economists before our very

 eyes, something we have never seen before."

Zombie Economists to Consider Ethics Code

Magical Depressionism #17

Hiring Slowdown Stuns Unemployed Economists

"Oh, yeah, we killer whales have always believed

Arnold Stang was funnier than Uncle Miltie."

"Berle?"

"No, Friedman."

Richard Keith 'Dick' Armey holds a Ph.D. in
economics from the University of Oklahoma
and taught economics at North Texas State
University--now UNT--for a number of years
before being elected to the U. S. House of
Representatives in 1984. What set him
apart as a professor of economics was
his use of shadow animals to illustrate
his Texomaesque interpretation of the
theories of Milton Friedman.

Allegories for Our Time #7
"Trust the Gorilla!" said the free market economists.

World's Worst Yobs #129
Walter Williams

N. Gregory Mankiw

His Pet Gremlin