...I keep thinking of the film Trading Places where Eddy Murphy's character (a con man) was an instinctive genius at predicting the market because he read the players, not the cards, so to speak. Most economists seem to scrutinize the cards, what ink they're printed with, the grade of paper and the shape of the Jack's left eye.

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