I had one of my periodic breakfasts with my friend Tom, the Economist. He likes to expound upon our nation's economic situation and such, which essentially means he never makes a particle of sense.
Economists are an odd bunch - they actually believe that their field is a science when we all know that it's a bunch of made-up words to make them sound smart, to make economics seem very complicated, and to make it impossible to explain anything to normal people. This is so that when everything goes down the toilet - as it inevitably does - their explanation is lengthy, full of jargon that SOUNDS impressive, while all along they are really as clueless as the rest of us.
When Tom gets going, throwing terms like "hurdle rates" and "EVA" at me in the middle of otherwise innocent declarative sentences, I just get a headache.
Mercifully, these breakfasts are rare.
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