What kind of scrutiny, though? We act as if economics is a science, rather than the entrail-scrivening it is. Certainly there are trends but there's no more probability or certainty in economics than there is in roulette. More than that we're dealing with a system of such complexity and unprecedented mechanics that the only thing modeling gives you is overconfidence. I just did a quick googling on "six sigma events" in finance and we've had four or five since 2008... and statistically, the odds of one are two in a billion. An economist would call these unprecedented times. A statistician would call them poorly modeled. So whose scrutiny shall we use? 'cuz all the "experts?" they're the ones calling the shots. And the proletariat? They're the ones who want to build a wall on the Mexican border and leave the EU.