"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
— Prediction

January 1, 1970

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Ezra Solomon, as quoted in Psychology Today (March 1984); also attributed to John Kenneth Galbraith in U.S. News & World Report (7 March 1988), p. 64.