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Steffee's avatar

Hi! It seems to be somewhat of a refrain from centrists, at least that I've heard, that Harris has bad ideas and Democrats are weak on the economy. But the only concrete example of this I've come across (at least that I remember right now) is the price gouging idea. I get the impression it's much more than just that... where can I read more about this?

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Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

Not so close. And I am not even counting the Jan 6 Coup attempt.

Republicans historically were better on economics/growth, but have been moving away and now on the two biggest economic issues deficits and immigration are much worse. Probably that is true on trade, although Democrats have moved very much anti-trade, too.

One would like to believe that Republicans would come in with ideas for making the bureaucracy actually behave according to cost-benefit principles, but have never (Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump) actually done so. Their "deregulation" seems to have been just aimed at regulations with high financial costs to key constituencies.

"Drill baby drill" is OK, but in fact they did no better than Biden. And Biden's approach to climate change is too high cost per unit of CO2 avoided, but it is and approach. Denial of the problem cannot be reformed.

Even idle talk about politicizing the Fed is disqualifying.

https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/an-unfair-evaluation-of-bidens-economic

https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/fairness-for-harris

Ukraine.

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