Comments on: The “Expert on Experts” on Who You Can — And Can’t — Trust in Today’s Market http://theguruinvestor.com/2009/02/20/the-expert-on-experts-on-who-you-can-and-cant-trust-in-todays-market/ Thoughts, ideas and insight from the top minds in the investment world Wed, 16 May 2012 17:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Farrell Calls a Bottom (and Rips “Dr. Doom”) « The Guru Investor http://theguruinvestor.com/2009/02/20/the-expert-on-experts-on-who-you-can-and-cant-trust-in-todays-market/#comment-132 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:59:18 +0000 http://theguruinvestor.com/?p=1165#comment-132 [...] have to be entertaining, Farrell says. He notes that University of California-Berkeley Professor Philip Tetlock’s extensive study on “experts” found that good predictive ability had little to do with expert status; in fact, the study found [...]

]]> By: Huey Lewis http://theguruinvestor.com/2009/02/20/the-expert-on-experts-on-who-you-can-and-cant-trust-in-todays-market/#comment-36 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:44:05 +0000 http://theguruinvestor.com/?p=1165#comment-36 Mark Zandi is a public policy tout. He made his money at economy.com by helping state governments push their local agenda by “proving” to the public that public expenditure creates jobs (using the RIMS multiplier model, which basically states that every dollar will create jobs, it’s just a question of how many).

Check his presentations on housing trends from ’05, ’06 to see exactly how prescient he is. The fact that the stimulus bill quotes him so heavily is scary.

And by the way, he’s employed by Moody’s (MCO) now.

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