Economists Overwhelmingly Favor Hillary Clinton Over Trump
A new Financial Times survey of economists:
Roughly 70 per cent of the economists polled between July 28-29 said a Clinton victory in November would be positive for growth in the US, compared with just under 14 per cent for Trump.
“Things [Donald Trump] has said have really been counter to what would be deemed good economic policy,” said Kathy Bostjancic, an economist with Oxford Economics. “Hillary Clinton looks safer to businesses and investors. It doesn’t mean an increase in the minimum wage is something the business community would fully embrace … because it could hit profit margins, but it pales into comparison of choking off global trade flows with enormous tariffs or creating a global trade war.”
Frankly, it is hard to understand how even 14 percent of any group of economists could say that Trump would be positive for growth. As Grew Mankiw said
I don't know any mainstream economist--right, left, or center--who has good things to say about the economic policy views of Donald Trump.
Economists for Hillary underline the obvious.
Economists for Hillary underline the obvious.
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