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Same question, lots of different answers, but no solutions

Analysis: The old joke about asking 10 economists a straight question and getting 11 different answers did not come into popular use by accident.

The old joke about asking 10 economists a straight question and getting 11 different answers did not come into popular use by accident.

There is often a scatter-gun-like pattern to macroeconomic predictions.