I suppose this largely speaks to (obviously justified!) fears or concerns about Hillary, but it does seem that an astonishing number of people are still "feeling the Bern."
Or maybe they're just getting all giddy about how much growth his economic policies would engender!
Did any of you see the claims made on his behalf by Professor Friedman? (UMass-Amherst)
The good professor got a little carried away recently and stated that policies promoted by "The Bern" could produce sustained 5+% growth!
This was just a bit too much for
four former Democratic Party CEA chairpersons, who wrote the following:
https://lettertosanders.wordpress.co...st-cea-chairs/
Also:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartl.../#3aa64dbe1c9b
The only thing I can figure is that the good professor got a little overly caffeinated one day while looking over a paper on neo-Keynesian models.
"But he has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, so he must know what he's talking about, right?"
That's the beautiful thing about the economics profession. No matter how ridiculously preposterous a politician's claim may be, he can likely find a "credentialed economist to support it.!
But here's the funny thing: Friedman, apparently, did not even vote for The Bern, for he's a "Hillary man!"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...llary-clinton/
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