Procrastinating on September 21, 2016

Economists for Trump!

2016 09 21 Economists for Trump pages

They are the usual suspects--people who have been 100% wrong since at least 2007, and yet lack any intellectual curiosity to try to rethink their view of the world and so understand why things have developed differently than they had thought they would: Eugene Fama in the lead, with June O'Neill, Richard Vedder, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, David Malpass, James Miller III, Steve Moore, and a half-dozen or so others. At least they are thin on the ground this morning...

The interesting thing is that they don't dare attempt to get signatures for an "Economists for Trump" letter. All they dare do is try for an "Economists Concerned by Hillary Clinton's Economic Agenda" letter. (And, of course, they do not have a parallel "Economists Concerned by Donald Trump's Economic Agenda" letter...

Curiously enough, only three of the signatories on the infamous "Bernanke is debasing the dollar!" letter of 2010 have signed up: Calomiris, Holtz-Eakin, and Malpass.

The other living signatories--Asness, Boskin, Bove, Chanos, Cogan, Ferguson, Gelinas, Grant, Hassett, Kristol, Senor, Shlaes, Singer, Taylor, Wallison, Wood--are missing in action. Don't think I've seen any of them on Team #I'mWithHer, though...

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