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It's Risky to Rely on the Economist's Vaccine
Assumptions alone won’t buoy the stock market indefinitely.
It’s easy if you have the right tools.
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There is an old joke about economists, and how badly they compare with real scientists. A physicist, a chemist and an economist are shipwrecked on a desert island, with nothing to eat, other than a crate of tins of baked beans which has also washed up on shore. But there is no tin opener. What to do?