Monday, May 23, 2011

Why I'm the World's Greatest Economist

In addition to the Asian Currency Crisis

the Dotcom Bubble

the housing bubble

the Dollar Bubble

put this one in your record book of "what the Captain predicted."

From about I'm thinking 3 or even 4 years ago.

And today!

10 comments:

Dave said...

Don't Communist Governments have a history of lying about their economic growth?

Why should this one be any different?

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/601007/n/China-s-Ghost-Cities

bigmo said...

Better listen to the Captain, he's dead on almost all if the time.

Anonymous said...

I say we put the Captain in charge of the Fed, even if his first act is to destroy it.

I mean it's not like he could do WORSE is it?

Anonymous said...

Besides, I'd get a kick out of the Captain having get dressed for work & tell people they are morons job..

Jaime Roberto said...

Given that they have 4x as many people as the US, their per capita GDP will be lower than ours for quite some time.

Ryan Fuller said...

Here you go, Captain.

http://xkcd.com/605/

Anonymous said...

and we all know per capita GDP is the solid foundation and fabric for a society and will keep your neighbor from slitting your throat...

raliv said...

When we go down, China is coming with us. They need someone to buy their trash.

Bike Bubba said...

Not a bad prediction--I'll leave it to others to say whether you're good or just lucky, but not a bad prediction.

But doesn't this make you into a "quant" now? :^)

Anonymous said...

As the worlds greatest economist can you give an opinion on this guys work, it seems to make sense

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/ross/ross1.html