29 September, 2016

gauchnomics comments on Neo Mercantilist Evangelicalism: You Can (Not) Shill.

gauchnomics comments on Neo Mercantilist Evangelicalism: You Can (Not) Shill.:

Originally, I responded paragraph by paragraph to this article by Trump's non-economist economics team. However, I think it makes more sense to respond to a few thematic points instead. They are:
  1. A litany of bad statistics, including the claim crime is going up.
  2. Blaming political opponents for demographic trends.
  3. Ignoring negative extrenalities for energy production.
  4. Arguing that increasing infrastructure spending would lower economic growth.
  5. Advocating for actual mercantilism in current century.
  6. Engaging in magical thinking on tax cuts and ignoring the need for deficit neutral policy evaluations.


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