Well, in Germany I know only three persons who (still) punch far above their weight: An economist who's almost always 180° wrong, a super-arrogant bank CEO and a special interest minority guy who should never have recovered from the huge scandal he had a few years ago.

Here's no real think tank culture and no such pundit culture as in the U.S..


In the U.S., it appears as if for every tiny topic there's someone ready to offer a stupid opinion about it on national media. This turns such opinions into quite useless indicators.