"econo-mist"

[Joel S. Berson]

"Econo-mist" -- make it the WOTY (say, around the time of the
President's budget proposal).

Others wrote elsewhere:
>>...I thought I would share a site I just discovered for
>>book lovers like myself.  Visit www.bibliochat.com
>>It is a site for readers to discuss books they are reading in real
>>time. Very interesting.  Just FYI.
>
>Interesting indeed. I was amused by a fairly ordinary typo (in the _
>Freakonomics_ page):
>"These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask."
>Is that the fog of a Fed chairman?
>
>But the page itself is more like an Amazon.com collection of reviews
>than a discussion.

Joel

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