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The Economic Ignorance of Trump and Sanders
National Review ^ | March 21, 2016 | Jon Hartley and Glenn Hubbard

Posted on 03/21/2016 3:10:17 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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1 posted on 03/21/2016 3:10:18 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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The Sanders and Trump platforms range from protectionist anti-trade measures to expanded entitlement spending.

Claiming that both Trump and Sanders are ignorant in economics represents specious reasoning. Here we have Sanders, a chronic life time failure, basically a crackpot compared to a hugely successful businessman, Donald Trump. There is something wrong with this equation!

It looks like yet another hit piece on Trump.

I believe that someone like Trump with a demonstrated record of successfully applying common sense and business sense to make the best of things. Can he not do that repeatedly with our trade imbalance? He would be much better at it than Hillary, with her lack of nongovernment experience and record of corrupt cronyism, Bernie the crackpot, or anyone else on the scene, do you not agree?

2 posted on 03/21/2016 3:21:05 AM PDT by olezip
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National Review ?????
3 posted on 03/21/2016 3:23:18 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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... yet another Goldman Sachs operative:

Jon (Hartley) previously worked at Goldman Sachs in their Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) group, working as a client portfolio manager on their liquid alternative investment platform.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/jon-hartley

... and Bush supporter:

Jeb Bush’s Tax Plan Offers Badly Needed Conservative Reforms

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423765/jeb-bushs-tax-plan-offers-badly-needed-conservative-reforms-jon-hartley?target=author&tid=1430179


4 posted on 03/21/2016 3:23:58 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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NR’s basic lie is that what we have NOW is free trade. What we have now is mercantilism—precisely what Adam Smith attacked. Except the mercantilists are the Chinese, the Mexicans, etc., and the Uniparty elite.

Trump is the ONLY candidate who does not want to dismantle and end the United States, and replace it with a North America without borders, populated by Muslim and Mexican rapists and murderers, a Third World hellhole.

Cruz is a Bush sock-puppet.


5 posted on 03/21/2016 3:27:42 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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It’s National Review. OF COURSE it’s another hitpiece on Trump.


6 posted on 03/21/2016 3:29:28 AM PDT by jonrd463
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Today, in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, populist candidates including Donald Trump and self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders are running against many of the central tenets of Smith’s ideas — and with considerable popular success.

That claim can easily be made against every seating Congressman, except a few, and most academica economic professors today...

...and his point is?

7 posted on 03/21/2016 3:33:27 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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8 posted on 03/21/2016 3:34:54 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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The deal maker better get going because if Rubio and Ksick throw their delegates to Cruz then ding ding ding. We have a winner.


9 posted on 03/21/2016 3:37:07 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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Adding this trash to your usual pile:


10 posted on 03/21/2016 3:38:02 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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Speaking of 'CUCKS', who is the only 'cuckin fanuck' in the GOP primary race?!?

Duhhhhhhh - that would be 'Lyin Ted'

11 posted on 03/21/2016 3:40:45 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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What is the national review? Never heard of it?


12 posted on 03/21/2016 3:43:49 AM PDT by Mr Apple ( *** CNN: NOW HIRING ADDITIONAL FAKE PANELISTS ***)
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I’ll give Trump credit where it’s due, but Trump’s businesses have nothing to do with manufacturing and trade ... which means he’s not subject to the same competitive realities that a company like Ford or Apple or IBM faces. He has made a career in luxury residential buildings in Manhattan, golf courses, and casinos. There’s nothing wrong with that, but in the one instance where he even indirectly got involved in a business of selling consumer products — namely, branding his own clothing line — it’s noteworthy that his name was all over foreign-made merchandise.


13 posted on 03/21/2016 3:43:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: Arthur McGowan

“Cruz is a Bush sock-puppet.”

No he’s not.


14 posted on 03/21/2016 3:46:32 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: reaganaut1

Donald Trump has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.


15 posted on 03/21/2016 3:52:22 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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I’d like to see National Review publish a copy of the 1924 Republican platform.


16 posted on 03/21/2016 3:55:37 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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With Neil Bush on the Finance team for Cruz, it makes you wonder who’s funneling money to and for Cruz, and, perhaps, beyond.

Bringing in GOPe men has consequences.


17 posted on 03/21/2016 4:00:43 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: olezip

All you had to look at is where it was posted to see that it’s another Trump hit piece.

Trump is simply for fair free trade—as well as lowered taxes and reduced counterproductive regulation.

The big-government economiist (while claiming he’s not a big government economist) would disagree with Trump’s repeal of Obamacare for a private-market solution—AND he would expand the EITC.


18 posted on 03/21/2016 4:06:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Slambat

Open your eyes.


19 posted on 03/21/2016 4:06:17 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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And the week begins with the bodies swelling up with toxins, bloating in the sun, and the coroners
forced to wear face masks while they identify the dead Trump-hating cult victims ...

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20 posted on 03/21/2016 4:12:19 AM PDT by mkjessup (A vote for CRUZ is a vote for ROMNEY, BUSH, GRAHAM, McCAIN & GOPe. Are you CruzBots effin' KWAZY?!?)
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