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Bill Moore wrote: 
 
>....another Truman comment:  If you laid the best economists in the 
>country end-to-end, they wouldn't reach a conclusion.  (The latter 
>comment has also, over the years, been attributed to other US 
>Presidents and Nobel-winning economists.) 
 
As far as I know, the first one to make this comment was George  
Bernard Shaw:   
 
"If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a  
conclusion."   
 
This is again from http://netec.wustl.edu/JokEc.html. 
 
Esther-Mirjam Sent 
University of Notre Dame 
 
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