If you're looking for work and if you can read Tarot cards, move to Italy.
Italy, emerging from its worst recession since World War Two and confronted by galloping inflation, has its own unique way of dealing with its problems.
Now we have reports that Italians are spending billions of dollars a year on fortune tellers and astrologers to come up with solutions for their financial woes.
Bloomberg reports that most Italians who turn to the occult do it for financial help or to fix up what's left of their love life. They will pay as much as 3000 Euros ($US4099) for a reading.
Still, you have to hand it to the Italians. They could do a lot worse. For a start, they might go to economists whose forecasts in the lead up to this crisis and beyond have been way off course. A fortune teller can't be worse.
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