Occupy AEA

To my immense amusement, there was an Occupy AEA (American Economic Association, which just had its annual conference in Chicago) protest. It's like watching victims of a plane crash protesting a physicists' convention.

I understand your frustration (sort of), but your anger is profoundly misdirected. There are a hundred better places to place blame than on the eggheads who are just trying to figure out how the system works in the first place.

(It's unfortunate that academic economists and policymakers are one and the same in the public's eye.)