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Greg Mankiw: The 90 Economists for McCain Are Liars

Posted on October 12, 2008

Thanks. This is appreciated: Greg Mankiw's Blog: Economists Against Obama: A list recently released by the McCain campaign [claimed to be 100; actually 90 economists]. It includes five Harvard professors. Some blog readers may ask, why didn't I sign? I am not particularly fond of Obama's proposed tax hikes or his apparent retreat from free trade. (See this article of mine.) But I thought the statement in the group letter that his proposals run a high risk of throwing the economy into a deep recession was a tad too hyperbolic for my tastes. ...

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economy , tax