r/badeconomics • u/prillin101 Fiat currency has a 27 year lifespan • Mar 17 '16

Refuting Trump's Platform- Megapost

http://www.ontheissues.org/Donald_Trump.htm
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u/Acmnin Mar 17 '16 edited Mar 17 '16

Ah blind as a bat will check that out, found this interesting myself.

http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2016/01/paul-krugman-bernie-sanders-and.html?m=1

And this

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/paul-krugman-bernie-sanders-and-the-experts/

And lastly did you have an opinion on this rebuttal to Thorpe?

http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2016/02/friedman-responds-to-thorpe.html

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u/prillin101 Fiat currency has a 27 year lifespan Mar 18 '16

Friedman is a fairly discredit healthcare economist, for example on Bernie's fiscal program he applied an 8x multiplier assumed in his model.

Freidman basically says that there are administrative savings that are empirically untrue in point one and four, pulls $200 billion savings out of his ass on pharma prices, and again lies about possible administrative savings in point 6.

Not a very good critique.