economists

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/03/60-minutes-michael-lewis-the-big-short/

(this is a sidebar on the article above, and may be transient)

Quote of the day:

An Indian-born economist once explained his personal theory of reincarnation to his graduate economics class. "If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist," he said, "you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist." —Paul Krugman, "Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations" (1994, page xi):

and if you are a good, virtuous physicist, you are reborn as an mathematician.

and if you are a good, virtuous mathematician, you are reborn as an engineer.

and if you are a good, virtuous engineer, you achieve satori!

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