Economists, and their End of the World Confessions (#EndOfTheWorldEconfessions)
With the end of the Mayan calendar upon us, economists took to Twitter to confess that which they've been keeping secret all this time.
#EndOfTheWorldEconfessions: Every October I make early-morning prank calls to famous economists, in a convincing Swedish accent.
#EndOfTheWorldEconfessions I secretly want to make Basel I, II, and III into the best movies ever.
#EndOfTheWorldEconfessions for the longest time I thought they were talking about claiming unemployment weakly.
#EndOfTheWorldEconfessions I imagine the Fed's dual mandate as a duel mandate between Ron Paul & Ben Bernanke
Accidentally announced a Blue Light special at the discount window. #endoftheworldEconfessions- #EndOfTheWorldEconfessions: Sometimes I make the implicit price deflator explicit.
#EndofTheWorldEconfessions When writing about QE2, I sometimes imagined I was on the ocean liner instead- #EndOfTheWorldEconfessions I answered the household survey under an assumed name.
#EndofTheWorldEconfessions I thought animal spirits were liquors vegans would hate.- #EndOfTheWorldEconfessions I may have carried out an unsterilized intervention at some point.
Seeing a $20 dollar bill on the ground, I stopped and picked it up. #EndofTheWorldEconfessions- #EndOfTheWorldEconfessions: I sometimes fantasize that NGDP stands for "Nice GDP", and then I want to target it.
When you say, "I'm from the Austrian School," I hear, "I suck at math." #EndOfTheWorldEconfessions
Way more excited about fiscal cliff negotiations than Christmas presents. #EndOfTheWorldEconfessions- OK... Here goes... gulp... I'm neither dismal, nor a scientist. #EndoftheWorldEconfessions
