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5. Friedman is a Sanders' camp resident economist
Thu Apr 11, 2019, 02:20 PM
Apr 2019

He is not one of the the top economists and has not won a Nobel prize or anything.

His analysis has been thoroughly debunked before.

Top Democratic economists just launched a brutal attack on Bernie Sanders

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/top-democratic-economists-just-launched-a-blistering-attack-on-bernie-sanders/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1b525d7091c7

Gerald Friedman’s Analysis of the Sanders Spending Plan Just Took a Hit Below the Waterline

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/gerald-friedmans-analysis-sanders-spending-plan-just-took-hit-below-waterline/

From Bill Moyers' site:

The Sanders “Economic Plan” Controversy

https://billmoyers.com/story/the-sanders-economic-plan-controversy/

In what The New York Times calls a “careful forensic examination,” the University of California-Berkeley economists found Friedman’s mathematical assumptions faulty or, at the very least, at odds with “conventional economic thinking.” Get all the details at The New York Times.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/upshot/uncovering-the-bad-math-or-logic-behind-bernie-sanderss-economic-plan.html
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