Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean will be flat again.

• 经济学家给他们自己立了个太容易太无用的任务，就是说在多有飓风暴雨的季节里，他们只能在暴风雨早过了时才告诉我们海上何时又会风平浪静。