Saw an amusing bit on the news last night. The CommSec person was saying, "well the Aussie dollar dropped a bit, mainly because we'd forecasted a $100 million trade surplus for the month, but got a $700 million trade deficit instead, but that's okay because if you take out oil, then we're doing alright in trade!"

Um... but if we took out oil, then we'd have less exports, too, because how would we make and ship them? Only a trained economist could come up with such nonsense.

"If we take labour out of the costs of our company, it's doing really well!"
"But with no labourers, we produce nothing, and sell nothing..."
"So?"
"..."