Posted on 10/02/2016 7:10:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
On Monday, I joined with 305 economists from universities, think tanks and businesses across the country to convey a message to the American people: “Hillary Clinton’s economic agenda is wrong for America.”
Our statement, printed below in its entirety and signed by some of the country’s most prominent economic theorists and practitioners, bemoans how “misguided federal policies have produced one of the slowest recoveries on record.” It warns that Clinton, the Democratic nominee, “promises to repeat almost all of [President] Obama’s policy mistakes” and her “outdated policy prescriptions won’t return our economy to the faster growth rates it once enjoyed.”
While Clinton offers more of the same, we suggest an alternative. “What America needs, and what Americans deserve,” says the statement, “is an agenda of economic freedom: limited but effective government, policies that rely on and strengthen markets, pro-growth tax reform, sensible federal spending restraint, regulatory relief, sound money, and freedom to trade.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Wow - who would have thought that a successful, multi-decade businessman would understand basic economics better than a career politician?
Unpossible!
Let me guess. Paul Krugman of the NYT was not one of them.
He seems to be the only ‘economist’ the left listens to.
And Hillary has a Marxist “economist” writer Paul Krugmann on her side, along with fascist Prof. Cass Sunstein.
Well, we’ve got to surrender to the most successful cattle futures investor of all time.
Unless the Ulterior Motive IS the road to serfdom.
I’ve written before concerning the politics of Ulterior Motive, and I believe it to be true. Best interests aside, we have been ruled by the politics of Ulterior Motive for many decades.
Of course. What are 305 other economists versus the mighty Krugman?
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