Tariffs Based On Napkin Math

[Unkotare]

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The UK and US have an almost equal trade balance

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"Almost"?

 

[Billiejeens]

I don’t remember those experts saying that can you quote them?

And he’s well on his way here… this time

Krugman
Wrong on everything
You fucks worship him.

 

[Lesh]

Then how come they're always wrong?

Really? Tell us where those three experts were wrong

 

[Lesh]

Krugman
Wrong on everything
You fucks worship him.

Why do you assholes keep ignoring all the other experts?

 

[Billiejeens]

Why do you assholes keep ignoring all the other experts?

You may not know what an expert is.

 

[Lesh]

They became credentialed class experts by being left wingers.

Holz-Eakins is a left winger??

You have no idea what you’re talking about

 

[dudmuck]

Oh no, the self proclaimed experts are AGHAST! My goodness what shall we do to keep these pearl clutchers calmed down. The last thing we need is the so called experts who have never been right to be AGHAST!

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, called it “malpractice” in response to another conservative economist who called it “embarrassing.”

its not from self-proclaimed experts, its from conservative economists.

 

[Lesh]

I

Douglas Holz-Eakin
Alan Cole
David Beckworth

None of those guys are named Larry Summers or Paul Krugman

 

[scruffy]

Really? Tell us where those three experts were wrong

Google is your friend.

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www.washingtonexaminer.com

 

[Lesh]

I
None of those guys are named Larry Summers or Paul Krugman

Again

None of those guys are named Larry Summers

 

[Lesh]

Douglas Holz-Eakin
Alan Cole
David Beckworth

Nope. Not Larry Summers

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, called it “malpractice” in response to another conservative economist who called it “embarrassing.”

its not from self-proclaimed experts, its from conservative economists.

Oh my, the media has a “conservative expert”! What makes them a conservative expert? Well they sound just like the liberal experts but you’ve never heard of them before and so the media dug them up and slapped “conservative expert” on them. So that’s how we do that! Just make shit up.

 

[Leo123]

Try reading what the experts they quoted had to say moron

It's always 'experts' isn't it? The very first sentence in that article calls tariffs 'taxes' which is a lie.

 

[Lesh]

It's always 'experts' isn't it? The very first sentence in that article calls tariffs 'taxes' which is a lie.

Yeah… screw those people who actually study this shit for a living.

Trump knows better right?

 

[Lesh]

Oh my, the media has a “conservative expert”! What makes them a conservative expert? Well they sound just like the liberal experts but you’ve never heard of them before and so the media dug them up and slapped “conservative expert” on them. So that’s how we do that! Just make shit up.

They sound like liberals because virtually all economists from both sides of the aisle recognize the utter stupidity of this

 

[MarcATL]

OFFS, it's Huffpo.

Yeah, and...?