Barry Eichengreen John L. Simpson Professor of Economics and Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Testimony before the House Banking Committee, U.S. Congress September 1998
Economists are like ambulance chasers: they like nothing better than rushing to the scene of a financial crisis to survey the damage. This gives them a chance to say "I told you so" and to display their wisdom after the fact. And as with highway accidents, often the obvious things to say are the most important. Less speed and more caution, the economists somberly intone, could have averted the crash. …
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