526 economists and counting backing Romney plans

So Romney has 526 economist including 5 Nobel holders backing his economic plans and Obama can't even keep the ones he's paying. On top of that the CBO is now saying, "maybe we shouldn't let the tax cuts expire" they are estimating if we do, 2 million jobs could be lost in 2013 and dip us back into a recession. They also announced that 2012 will end with another 1.1 trillion deficit.

This election is starting to look bad for Obama, this is where the metal meets the meat. If congress does nothing between now and election we go back into a recession. If they get together and do what Democrats want we face stagnation and a slightly lower recession. Hmm sounds like good times ahead.


http://economistsforromney.com/

http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/08/22/cbo-fiscal-cliff-would-cause-recession-but-punting-fiscal-cliff-would-lead-to-stagnant-economy-too/

Yes, but look at the overwhelming support Obama got for his budget plan...

Oh wait...

that economists for romney site looks like mit wrote it himself...............does nothing for me

1) gary becker

Usually considered politically conservative

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

3) robert mundell

Helped start the movement known as supply-side economics

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

4) edward prescott

In January 2009 Prescott, along with more than 250 other economists and professors,[SUP][9][/SUP] signed an open letter to President Barack Obama opposing the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The letter was sponsored by libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Prescott

I wouldn't put faith in anything the CBO says. We are going to dip into another recession no matter who gets put highest on the trophy shelf.

Here are a list of things we WON'T GET if Romney (or anyone for that matter) becomes President:

A more contained and less intrusive federal government, a greater reliance on the private sector, a broad expansion of opportunity without government favors for special interests, and respect for the rule of law including the decision-making authority of states and localities.

5) myron scholes

One of his professors at McMaster introduced him to the works of George Stigler and Milton Friedman...he shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert C. Merton "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"

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

tomahawk2406 said:

that economists for romney site looks like mit wrote it himself...............does nothing for me

Click to expand...

Ok here's some names for you to kick around

Council of Economic Advisers that flat ass quit on Obama, two which were the head of the CEA
Peter Orszag
Christina Romer
Austan Goolsbee
Larry Summers
Jared Bernstein

8 ) douglas adie

did somebody say cato institute? they're pimping his books.

http://www.cato.org/store/books/monopoly-mail-privatizing-us-postal-service-paperback

One could probably find 526 economists to endorse the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Oh wait ... cn

NoDrama said:

I wouldn't put faith in anything the CBO says. We are going to dip into another recession no matter who gets put highest on the trophy shelf.

Click to expand...

Actually thats what the CBO is saying, it will only be worse if congress doesnt do something. We need reasonable budget cuts and tax policy and we won't be hurt "as" bad.

10) richard agnello

this guy seems focused on races

Recent Publications:

• “How Strong is the Market for Paintings by African American Artists? An Economist’s Perspective?” International Review of African American Art, forthcoming.
• "Race and Art: Prices for African American Painters and Their Contemporaries," Journal of Black Studies, Sage Publications, 2009.

http://www.lerner.udel.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/richard-j-agnello

11) james ahiakpor

the ludwig von mises institute pips this guy. anyone seeing a pattern yet?

http://mises.org/Literature/Author/195

12) william albrecht

this guy loves to talk about how derivatives should (shouldn't) be regulated

[h=3]Expertise[/h]

• Regulation of financial services
• Emerging capital markets
• International markets

[h=3]Presentations[/h]

• The Role of Derivatives in Local Capital Markets

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/people/profile.cfm?id=1041

nontheist said:

Ok here's some names for you to kick around

Council of Economic Advisers that flat ass quit on Obama, two which were the head of the CEA
Peter Orszag
Christina Romer
Austan Goolsbee
Larry Summers
Jared Bernstein

Click to expand...

Thank God Larry Summers quit. He's egotistical piece of crap who helped repeal Glass Steagall in the 90's. If I had to pick the worst decision of Obama's presidency, appointing Larry Summers to the A-Team was probably it. If you read "Confidence Men" which chronicles the first couple years of Obama's presidency and it's relationship to Wall Street, you'd see that Larry Summers regularly ignored Obama and pretty much everyone else. Gietner was a fanboy, however and did whatever Larry wanted. It's speculated that Larry was probably forced out after Obama found out that he and Gietner were ignoring his wishes. Goolsbee and former fed chairman Paul Volcker were on the B-team. Obama almost picked Goolsbee as head economic adviser and Volcker as secretary of state. Things would have been so much better had he gone with those guys.

As far as Romney's endorsements of economists, it means nothing. These guys make most of their money being overpaid to give speeches and write articles for think tanks with agendas. I'll bet most them thought NAFTA and financial deregulation were brilliant ideas.

Well another CBO article popped up saying the same gloom and doom. They're saying At some point, we will need to adopt policies that require people to pay significantly more in taxes, accept substantially less in government benefits and services, or both. Good luck selling that one to the public on a re-election bid. Well maybe at least now we can get back to what matter instead of stupid shit like tax returns.

UncleBuck said:

12) william albrecht

this guy loves to talk about how derivatives should (shouldn't) be regulated

Expertise

• Regulation of financial services
• Emerging capital markets
• International markets

Presentations

• The Role of Derivatives in Local Capital Markets

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/people/profile.cfm?id=1041

Click to expand...

And all this expert analysis coming from a twerp that can't even hold down a job! LOL

Robert Genetski, Classicalprinciples.com

http://www.classicalprinciples.com/

Exorcise the Keynesian Demons A full 66 years after his death (April 20, 1946), the spirit of John Maynard Keynes still possesses the minds of many of the world’s economists and national policymakers. Keynes economic icon demon instills an irrational fear—that cutting government spending will undermine economic activity, while history rationally demonstrates the opposite. Continue reading