Well, are you qualified? How does your economics education differ from my guess? Was my assumption correct? Again, back to my original point, it's often people

Well, are you qualified? How does your economics education differ from my guess? Was my assumption correct? Again, back to my original point, it's often people who explicitly aren't qualified who most vehemently argue the topic, particularly by dismissing out of hand various experts as stooges or imbeciles. I think there's something about the seeming simplicity of the topic that appeals to programmers especially. We tend to be smarter than average and have mastered a field that involves a large amount of self-study. The inner narrative is then "I'm an expert" and somehow that really kicks in when we start talking about economics.