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date: 17 January 2025

Ezra Solomon 1920–2002
Burmese-born American economist 

  1. The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
    in Reader's Digest 1985; often wrongly attributed to J. K. Galbraith following a humorous piece in U.S. News & World Report 7 March 1988