Austan (Austan) Goolsbee

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656 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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I'm more sympathetic to that.

Yeah, I think that's the correct interpretation.

But that makes you skeptical of forecasting in general.

Right.

And yet... It has to be done.

It's better than it has to be done.

It's been better than random.

And for all the for all the criticisms, for all the criticisms of the people who say, look, you missed this one.

You screwed that one up.

It's not like their forecasts were better.

Right.

Better than random.

Yeah, that's fair.

That's fair.

The expectation.

And the expectations and the communication and like how are we talking about it, all of that stuff matters.

I get impatient with the funhouse mirror nature of this.

Well, we think that they think that we think that this is going to happen.

I don't like that.

As you know, Paul Volcker was an old friend of mine.

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