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In the New York Times they don’t. In a piece on protests in Greece against austerity plans, the NYT three times referred to the opinions of unnamed “experts.”
It would be helpful to identify the people whose opinions are being cited. Not all experts agree on the situation in Greece.
Also, many of the people who claim the title of “expert” have an especially bad track record in understanding the economy. They held the view that everything was fine as the housing bubble was building up in the United States, Spain, Ireland and elsewhere. Readers may want to know if the experts whose opinions are presented in this article are among this group.