----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]