From: Ward
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:45 AM
To: ProudToBeCanadian.ca
Subject: economy up – surprised economists; economy down – surprised economists
Dear Joel:
I got a kick out of this headline. “GDP down 0.1 per cent in Q1: first decline in five years surprises economists”. Which economists I wonder. Certainly not the ones that have been continually “surprised” by good market news, or the ones that have been promoting impending disaster for the last 6 months.
Regards
Ward
From: Joel
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:30 PM
To: Ward
Subject: economy up – surprised economists; economy down – surprised economists
HA! Excellent point!
It’s sort of like when a pro-conservative-values movie like the recent Bella opened and was described as a “surprise hit” in most of the media. Surprise to whom? I totally expected it to be a hit! Juno was also a “surprise hit”. The Passion of the Christ was a “super shocking surprise puzzling weirdo psycho-Christo hit!”, and all those massively successful family-friendly movies with positive messages were equally “shockingly successful” (to them) … But those anti-war and anti-Bush movies suffered “surprising losses in theaters…”
After talking down the economy for the past year and three months in Canada and past 7 years and four months in the U.S., I’m only shocked that they can pretend to be “surprised” at the recent downturns.
Damn they make me laugh!
Thanks
Joel
Not really related, but kinda:
Obama ‘Deeply Disappointed,’ Had No Idea, Shocked
(Blog entry at Little Green Footballs)
P.S. —Ward, my email reply to you bounced back to me!
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