I first ran across Yoram Bauman’s name, in Daniel Gross’ NYT article: The Forecast for the Forecasters Is Dismal [NYT] and then in Freakonomics blog and Greg Mankiw’s Blog
Yoram K. Bauman, an economist who teaches at the University of Washington and performs stand-up comedy, summed up an often-used line: ”Macroeconomists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions.”
Bauman claim’s to be the world’s first and only standup economist.
He’s hilarious. It says a lot about the information that is pumped out into the public domain.
In college, the last question on my macro econ final was:
Which statement is true?
a. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
b. Look out or they’ll do it to you.
c. Them that has, gets.
d. All of the above.
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Wow someone is actaully doing something with an Econ degree other than teaching econ.