A comment made many years ago

But is still applicable today, to ANY of the people who are speaking as if they're capable of analyzing the current economic crisis or those who are either attacking or defending OR analyzing the government attempts to pull us out of it.

Pretty much applicable to ANYONE who pretends to knowing what the hell is going on -- whether economically, socially, politically, etc:

"That man is trying to work his way up to becoming a horse's ass ...
but he hasn't got what it takes."

The Late Howard Luck Gossage