Economists don't always get it right...
Economists claim to be scientists who can predict how ‘rational’ people, markets and economies will behave. Their record suggests otherwise.
Irving Fisher, the most influential US economist of his time, said in October 1929 that the stock market had reached a ‘permanently high plateau’. Less than two weeks later the stock market crashed – and didn’t recover for the next 25 years.
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