7.08.2011

If you're looking for a really, really safe job...

Unemployment rate rises to 9.2 percent. Just a 'soft patch'? - CSMonitor.com

Professional forecasters still generally predict that the US economy will regain some momentum in the year's second half and continue to grow...

...be a professional forecaster. They will never run out of work and what's more, they don't even have to be right. Professional guessers would be a better job title, but would probably involve a slight reduction in pay. 

Of course there's really no reason I can think of why some guy in central Africa can't guess as well as some guy in a big New York firm, and do it on five cents a day to boot. I'm forecasting nobody will ever forecast that, though.

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