> If you don't believe macroeconomics I'll bite that bullet. I don't believe macroeconomics. Microeconomics is pretty solid; that's the part of the field that'

> If you don't believe macroeconomics I'll bite that bullet. I don't believe macroeconomics. Microeconomics is pretty solid; that's the part of the field that's actually grounded in reality. Macroeconomics is like SETI; in the absence of the ability to carry out much in the way of meaningful experiments, it's mostly people just taking what we emotionally want to believe, and garnishing it with equations until it tastes like science.