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Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists

Posted by kdawson on from the who's-the-fairest-of-them-all dept.

Buffaloaf writes "Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, wanted to have unbiased information about which presidential candidate would be better for the economy, so he financed his own survey of 500 economists. He gives a bit more detail about the results in a CNN editorial, along with disclosure of his own biases and guesses as to the biases of the economists who responded."

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  1. Lag Time, Economics and Unintended Consequences by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sorry, but I don't care what a bunch of pointy head economists say. They don't have a clue what is, what should be, or what could be.

    and people saying It is better under (D) than (R) are just ignoring the facts, even considering "lag time". They tend to forget Stagflation of the late 70's where income tax rates were way up there, and on everyone.

    No, the problem is that nobody knows what would have been, could have been, should have been if the government got out of the way.

    But we can know that the FAILED policies of the LEFT, destroyed the African American community, by destroying the families in the name of "welfare".

    And if Leftwing Economics is so great, why not move to Cuba or china where government controls everything aspect of the economy.

    As far as I'm concerned, the government is a big part of the problem.

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  2. Re:The majority of economists are Democrats? by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, you need to DOMINATE your subjects like a KING. EVERYONE needs to follow YOUR rules. You simply can't have a large number of people in self-governing states and a weak federal government like you do in Europe.

    Wait. What?

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  3. Unbridled Capitalism - Monopolies by mengel · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    My opinion on this, on the other hand, is that folks who have studied economics have learned that unbridled (unregulated?) capitalism leads inexorably to monopolies using unfair business practices to stomp out competition, and to people doing things like buying stock on margin that they can't afford to actually buy (leading to the Great Depression), or to people buying houses with variable rate mortgages they can't afford to pay (leading to the current credit mess).

    Therefore, the capitalist system needs regulation to keep it out of those corners where it doesn't work anymore.

    This is why when we get people in power who don't realize this, and start turning off more and more of government's regulatory facilities, (rather than making them less oenerous but keeping them effective) we end up with problems in our economy.

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  4. Re:The majority of economists are Democrats? by laddiebuck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It wasn't even in the 19th century. Remember the famines of India and Ireland? Failures of the free market.

  5. Re:Wait .... by couchslug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Did you also notice that all our Caucasian presidents have been white?"

    If Obama is elected that will change.

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