Posted on 10/03/2008 2:12:56 PM PDT by Doug TX
AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who study economics for a living, Mr Obama’s lead is much more commanding. A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
You only need to look at the charts in the middle of the page to get the gist.
The Economist is a Euro-Socialist linguine-spined elitist POS.
ROTFL!!! Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Christopher Dodd, Bahnee Fwank, Charlie "chump change" Rangel. Yup! Basically, the same people who gave us the Wall Street Bailout Act of 2008. Nothing gets by the "intellectuals" and "academic" boys down at the Economist.
Well, that makes sense then. Academic economists LOL
Socialists would love taxing businesses out of existence, causing massive unemployment, people paying over half of their income if they’re forutnate to have any. We become serfs. Isn’t that the goal?
So Alan Colmes and all the MSM idiots will quote this material to the masses as fact from Democrat-Socialist talking points.
“A total of 142 responded, of whom 46% identified themselves as Democrats, 10% as Republicans and 44% as neither. This skewed party breakdown may reflect academia’s Democratic tilt, or possibly Democrats’ greater propensity to respond. Still, even if we exclude respondents with a party identification, Mr Obama retains a strong edge—though the McCain campaign should be buoyed by the fact that 530 economists have signed a statement endorsing his plans.”
Sorry, non-scientific polling pisses me off as someone who chugs numbers. The “uninterested” generally tend Democratic anyways.
” ... says Jonathan Parker, a non-aligned professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, “is a pragmatist not an ideologue. I expect Clintonian economic policies.” If, that is, crushing federal debt does not derail his taxing and spending plans.”
So there is no rational basis for their assumptions, just “oh he’ll just be clinton.”
There is no rational basis for their views. I bet most can’t even name 2 economists working for either side.
The article even says McCain’s tax policy is superior even with the heavy oversampling of Democrats. The latter half of the article is insulting Bush and that is likely mostly because of the deficit, something which McCain has been very adamant about cutting. Deficit spending = Inflation as we’ve found out.
What will increase the deficit more? A McCain presidency or an Obama presidency with a Democratic house?
I know its a Euro left mag, but the unwashed don’t. I’m talking about where I found that link... digg.com on the front page. It takes some decades to figure out the difference between what works and psuedo theory.
Like the caller today on Rush...he’s a student at U of Wisc and he said most the kids he knows don’t know why they are supporting BHO. You put this article in front of them and I’ll argue they buy it hook, line, and sinker.
Well, if I were to ask them, they would say that. But, then, my poll is roughly as scientific as The Economist's.
The next question is what do the economists who are not hiding in Academia think?
I’m an economist by training, nature, and profession. “The Economist” is not about economics, in my opinion. They are a business rag for elite center-left European style socialists. I took their magazine for a year, thinking they would be Free Marketers. Wrong! They prefer almost all government programs over the Free Market.
You got that right. This bunch of RATS are criminals and are closer to communists than Democrats.
Also remember 365 Academic economists wrote an open letter to the Times of London saying that Maggie Thatchers economic reforms would not work. That was just before the UK economy had the longet period of sustained economic growth since WWII. The opinion of most academic economists isn't worth the air they used to express it.
Also remember 365 Academic economists wrote an open letter to the Times of London saying that Maggie Thatchers economic reforms would not work. That was just before the UK economy had the longet period of sustained economic growth since WWII. The opinion of most academic economists isn't worth the air they used to express it.
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