In response to the assorted comments from our most learned and esteemed Economist comrades, I would really like to get a hold of whatever Ganja those boys happen to be smoking. I mean, I don't want to be a buzzkill, but...I mean...are they really serious?
What do you expect, they make their livings by being optimists.  
"Confidence men", in the literal sense of the word....

No wonders that historically, the can never see the forest for the trees.