526 economists and counting backing Romney plans

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Bob Grady, Cheyenne Capital Fund

Grady was a speechwriter and policy adviser for George H.W. Bush during the 1988 Presidential campaign

In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Grady to be a member of the Advisory Committee on Trade and Policy Negotiations (ACTPN)[SUP][21]

Grady has emerged in recent years as an adviser to various leading Republican candidates and public officials. He served as co-chairman of George W. Bush’s campaign in California in both 2000 and 2004, and as an architect of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s environmental and economic policies during the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election and member of Schwarzenegger’s transition team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Grady


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cannabineer said:
One could probably find 526 economists to endorse the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Oh wait ... cn
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Phil Gramm, Former U.S. Senator, Texas

Between 1995 and 2000, Gramm was the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. During that time he spearheaded efforts to passbanking deregulation laws, including the landmark Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which removed Depression-era laws separating banking, insurance and brokerage activities.
 
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[h=3]John Lott, Burke, VA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott

Lott is an author in both academia and in popular culture. A political conservative,[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] he is a frequent writer of opinion editorials

Mary Rosh persona[/h]As part of the dispute surrounding the missing survey, Lott created and used "Mary Rosh" as a fake persona to defend his own works on Usenet and elsewhere. After investigative work by blogger Julian Sanchez, Lott admitted to use of the Rosh persona.[SUP][56][/SUP] Sanchez also pointed out that Lott, posing as Rosh, not only praised his own academic writing, but also called himself "the best professor I ever had".
Some commentators accused Lott of transgressing normal practice, noting that he praised himself while posing as one of his former students,[SUP][63][/SUP][SUP][64][/SUP] and that "Rosh" was used to post a favorable review of More Guns, Less Crime on Amazon.com. Lott has claimed that the "Rosh" review was written by his son and wife.[SUP][64][/SUP]
"I probably shouldn't have done it—I know I shouldn't have done it—but it's hard to think of any big advantage I got except to be able to comment fictitiously," Lott told theWashington Post in 2003.[SUP][64][/SUP]
 
Dr Kynes

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yeah yeah yeah bucky, you can declare anybody who disagrees with your view as a shill for somebody or other. whats new? your record of ad hominem attacks is almost as unblemished as ink the world's whenever i see a monkey's butthole i know sommebody is getting a personal attack, but at least yours are somewhat based on their body of work.

fucking economists are dumbasses anyhow. their entire "science" is based on a confidence scam, and being the last guy with a chair when the music stops.

Obama's stable of dingbats is just as partisan, just as biased towards their gris-gris as any of these cato institute assholes. economists and their "science by popular opinion" bullshit are a large part of why we are in this mess in the first place.

no person who ever had to plan their own budget could think economists are anything but con-men. they all labour under the misconception that if you get broke enough and go deep enough in debt eventually you will circumnavigate the economic universe and emerge in the black on the other side.

economists are dumb,, and the more lauded they are for their economic brilliance the stupider they become.
 
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John Makin, American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)...AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.[SUP][3] More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the HumanitiesLynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

AEI is the most prominent think tank associated with American neoconservatism, in both the domestic and international policy arenas.[SUP][9]

[h=3]Goldwater campaign[/h]In 1964, William J. Baroody, Sr., and several of his top staff at AEI, including Karl Hess, moonlighted as policy advisers and speechwriters for Republican presidential nomineeBarry Goldwater.

[h=3]Global warming[/h][h=4][edit]Payment controversy[/h]Some AEI staff and fellows have been critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international scientific body tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity.[SUP][126][/SUP][SUP][127][/SUP] In February 2007, a number of sources, including the British newspaper The Guardian, reported that the AEI had sent letters to scientists offering $10,000 plus travel expenses and additional payments, asking them to critique the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.[SUP][128][/SUP] This offer has been criticized asbribery.[SUP][129][/SUP][SUP][130]

According to the Guardian article, the AEI received $1.6 million in funding from ExxonMobil. The article further notes that former ExxonMobil CEO Lee R. Raymond is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.


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David Malpass, Encima Global

He served as Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, and Chief Economist at Bear Stearns.

Malpass worked at Bear Stearns for 15 years and spent six of those years as the firm's chief economist. Malpass' team ranked second in the Institutional Investor ranking of Wall Street economists in 2005, 2006, and 2007,[SUP][13][/SUP] however, Bearn Stearns investors lost 93 percent of their share value when the company signed a merger agreement with JP Morgan Chase in a stock swap worth $2 per share (less than 7 percent of Bear Stearns market value just two days before). During his tenure as chief economist of Bear Stearns up through 2008, the firm sought $25 billion dollars in bailout money from the Federal Reserve, and eventually the collapse of two subprime mortgage hedge funds led to the implosion of the company.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][15][/SUP] In December 2007, Malpass rejected the notion of an impending housing-led recession[SUP][16][/SUP] and in an ill-timed op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, Malpass argued that the economy was sound, the credit crisis was contained, and the American economy was fine in August 2007.[SUP][17][/SUP] In January 2008, shortly before the collapse of Bear Stearns, Malpass discounted the possibility of a significant fall in US house prices and predicted that sub-prime writedowns would "not be very large".[SUP][18]

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Dr Kynes

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UncleBuck said:
this is data about your 526 "economists" :lol:
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no, most of it is nonsense, attempting to smear them with the perceived scandals of people and groups that they have a business arrangement with,, or by associating them with some scandal, real or imagined. i dont care if somebody writes economic theories, and also worked as a speechwriter for barry goldwater.

al franken used to write dick-jokes for the least funny seasons of saturday night live. whats the fucking point?

but by all means feel free to keep making yourself look stupider and stupider by continuing this avalanche of ad hominem attacks,, guilt by association, straw men,, and other rhetorical fallacies. i know you will anyway. spam awayu till every salient comment is drowned in your bullshit and all debate is ended by your SPAM
 
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  • Tom Miller, American Enterprise Institute


    The     American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI)...AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.    [SUP][3] More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the HumanitiesLynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

    AEI is the most prominent think tank associated with American neoconservatism, in both the domestic and international policy arenas.    [SUP][9]

    Goldwater campaign

    In 1964, William J. Baroody, Sr., and several of his top staff at AEI, including Karl Hess, moonlighted as policy advisers and speechwriters for Republican presidential nomineeBarry Goldwater.

    Global warming

    [edit]Payment controversy

    Some AEI staff and fellows have been critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the international scientific body tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity.[SUP][126][/SUP][SUP][127][/SUP] In February 2007, a number of sources, including the British newspaper The Guardian, reported that the AEI had sent letters to scientists offering $10,000 plus travel expenses and additional payments, asking them to critique the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.[SUP][128][/SUP] This offer has been criticized asbribery.[SUP][129][/SUP][SUP][130]

    According to the     Guardian article, the AEI received $1.6 million in funding from ExxonMobil. The article further notes that former ExxonMobil CEO Lee R. Raymond is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.

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Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University

Miron is an outspoken libertarian. He has proposed three policy reforms to help the US economy recover from the financial crisis: cutting entitlements, freezing regulation, and replacing the existing tax code with a flat tax on consumption.[SUP][4][/SUP]
 
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Daniel O’Brien, McLean, VA

[h=1]Daniel O'Brien of Virginia convicted of enticing 12-year-old Massachusetts girl to have sex[/h]
WOBURN – A Virginia man authorities say traveled to Massachusetts to help a 12-year-old girl he met on the Internet run away so he could have sex with her has been found guilty. Daniel O’Brien, of Richmond, Va., was convicted Monday in Middlesex Superior Court of attempted kidnapping and child enticement. Sentencing was scheduled for June 29. Prosecutors say he traveled to Littleton last November soon after contacting the girl on the Internet, and intended to bring her back to Virginia and have sex with her. O’Brien was arrested as he stepped off a train. Prosecutors say the girl’s parents became suspicious when she filled her backpack with extra clothes and money.O’Brien’s lawyer argued at trial that because he never met the girl, he did not commit a crime.
 
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