"Macro Tourists" is a phrase that was coined by former policy economist and global macro trader Mark Dow to characterize investors who left their comfort zone to make big pronouncements about how macroeconomics really works.It might be interesting to come up with analogues in other fields. Perhaps Joseph has some examples from epidemiology.
Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Term of the day -- "Macro Tourists"
I came across this pejorative in this very sharp Barry Ritholtz post then followed a link to get to this definition from a very funny piece by Joe Weisenthal:
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