Philip
Rothman
Professor
Department
of Economics
East
Carolina University 333999
Greenville, NC 27858-4353 USA
Office: Brewster A-424
Phone: 252-328-6151
Fax: 252-328-6743
Email: rothmanp@ecu.edu
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JEREMY PIGER'S REAL-TIME RECESSION PROBABILITIES
"As for me, all I know is that
I know nothing" Socrates
(Republic)
"If knowledge can create problems, it is
not through ignorance that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov
"A great deal of intelligence can be
invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep" Saul Bellow
"Some
men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them" Joseph Heller
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men" George Orwell
"In a time
of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" George Orwell
"With four parameters I can fit an
elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk" John von Neumann
"The Category 4 hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical
storm" Bill
Gross, co-founder
of PIMCO, on
the state of the financial system 8 days before Lehman Brothers collapsed
"What we
wish, that we readily believe" Demosthenes
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