Most of the time, as physicist Wolfgang Pauli put it in another context, they are not even wrong.
But let me put it in another way.
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Or if you want to put it in another way, we have just accelerated the schedule, and we're looking at what are good numbers for the first quarter that used to be good numbers for the whole six months of the year before the election.
There's a bit of a learning curve here, when it comes to just turning the thing on -- give it a twist and a pull, not unlike a childproof pill cap to put it in standby and another pull to get things started.
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Rumors snowball, people will take all their money out on a whim and put it back in again on another whim, and that's really what we've been seeing the last few days.
Or to put it another way, in being passionately and ideologically opposed to protectionism, have successive British governments been a little too dismissive of less pernicious forms of economic and industrial nationalism?
Or to put it another way, in the immediate aftermath of a Greek default, the Greek government would have quite a lot of power to dictate restructuring and repayment terms to its creditors.
Or to put it another way, in the absence of dangerous leverage - or huge debts relative to their capital resources - can Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital and so on make a decent return without a massive overhaul in their business models (management-consultant speak for huge job cuts)?
What his numbers show is that British exporters would probably be more damaged by a eurozone implosion than German ones: or to put it another way, businesses in the UK - which, to state the stunningly obvious, is not a member of the euro area - are more dependent on the health of the eurozone than German companies.
Or to put it another way, forbearance is another contributor to the undermining of trust in the integrity and strength of the financial system.
It plans to put in orbit at least another six satellites to boost service reach and quality.
Or to put it another way, economic conditions in what remains the world's largest single economy have a material impact on our prosperity.
"As a woman, as a feminist, I think it's time to put another woman in the seat, " CNN contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said.
To put it another way, a tiny difference in the Libor or Euribor rate could determine whether a bank like Barclays - and other banks - would make a profit or a loss on huge derivatives deals.
You might see him take the money he has won and put it in one pocket and put the money he brought with him to gamble that evening (yet another mental account) into a different pocket.
Or to put it another way, there will be a fall in real terms in income from tax credits and benefits.
To put it another way, the rich lead the decline in fertility, producing a short-term increase in income inequality as they capture the benefits of demographic change first.
Or as another big beast in local government put it, they might be casting it as a public services commission but here's "the starting gun for Local Government Reform at last!"
As a UN official once put it in connection with the need to regulate small arms - another transie agenda item now endorsed by Team Obama - "Americans are citizens of the world just like everybody else, " adding that they better get used to it by getting with the program.
Or to put it another way, there is no serious momentum in economic activity that gives endless time to the leaders of the eurozone to agree measures that will provide reassurance to creditors and investors that Spain and Italy - inter alia - will ultimately be able to pay all their debts.
To put it another way, the Bank is saying that in a business-as-usual way, with no stigma attached and at a cheaper interest rate, it will provide the funds that till now it would only provide through its so-called discount window - which is where banks go to borrow in an embarrassing emergency.
Another option for the suddenly wealthy: Put it in the hands of a family that has been wealthy longer than you.
To put it another way, governments set up a system that in effect treated bankers as naughty children or ravenous puppies who could not be trusted not to eat too much of the dangerously fattening stuff - and regulators were to be the health conscious parents.
But it's one thing to put people in uniform, and another thing to have clear command structure, or the capacity to move troops from point A to point B, or the capacity to make sure that the troop carrier from point A to point B has got the necessary air in its tires or oil in its engine.
Or to put it another way, it turns out that this new stability in one form of prices, consumer price inflation, did not deliver broader stability.
Or to put it another way, Greece's austerity programme is succeeding in impoverishing Greek people with little in the way of discernible benefits to the Greek private sector and the capacity of Greece to start earning its way in the world.
But let's put their shared consensus another way: Somehow it became a conventional view in contemporary American politics that it is non-urban conservatives who in every case have to accommodate their beliefs to a national culture created by people who live somewhere else.
To put it another way, what bankers call "the execution risk" in the deal looks less in a Co-op takeover than for an NBNK takeover.
Let's put it another way -- assume we didn't have a race in Bahrain, would all the problems stop?
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