Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

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

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.