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Which is, politically, a difficult pill to swallow when you've been the ultimate goal of the entire system for 50 years, but this is how economics used to be.

However, Juan Carlos Hallak, professor of international economics at the University of Buenos Aires, has a counterpoint.

“The economy does best when government doesn’t pick winners and losers,” said Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow of business and economics at Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank that advocates for free markets.

To abandon that baseline requirement of rationality is to abandon economics, period.

We are in relatively unknown territory in modern economics and the picture seems to change almost every day, so predictions have to be taken with a large dose of salt.