It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
I think punditry serves no purpose.
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.