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Complete Agreement

Economists are a cantankerous lot.  Most don’t even like each other, but there is one thing they agree on:

Presidents — ALL presidents — get too much credit when things are good and too much blame when things are bad.

Like aircraft carriers, the economy is huge and changes directions slowly . . . very slowly!