Truth Told With A Twinkle In The Eye

摘要

What do you get when you take an oil patch roughneck who has participated in the drilling of two dry holes, give him the talent and conviction that qualifies him to serve as a teacher and a lay minister in his local church and then train him as a microeconomist to the Ph.D. level? In the case of Dr. Loren C. Scott, president of Loren C. Scott & Associates of Baton Rouge, LA, an economic consulting firm founded in 1981 when he was on the faculty of Louisiana State University, you get a keen-eyed interpreter of masses of economic data who can deliver honest assessments with a twinkle in his eye. The twinkle is there because he knows a thing or two about life after 40 plus years of working with energy people of all stripes and having observed a goodly number of fairly ordinary folks who have been given a gift that helps them either succeed - sometimes spectacularly - in tight situations, or at least to muddle though.