re: #371 Dark_Falcon

There are plenty of conservative experts in macro economics, but we don’t see them as often here. This is because they are less likely to be to be flinging red meat to the online part of the conservative base. They’re more found on places like National Review or the Wall Street Journal, with pieces that feature more detailed arguments than rage boys would find enjoyable reading.

Trickle-down economics, voodoo economics, had already been discredited by the time Bush Senior ran. Deregulation of the financial market clearly has also been shown to be a fucking terrible idea. National Review was always a pretty shitty place, and although it’s funny watching them eject white nationalist after white nationalist, using it as a go-to site for anything is silly.

One of the main problems with conservatives and economics in the modern day is very much something that Ralphieboy pointed out— they’re bound by ideology. The biggest economic issue facing the US is climate change, but conservative economists aren’t allowed to talk about that. The second biggest issue is the growing wealth disparity, which is dangerous from an economic as well as a societal perspective, but conservative economists can’t talk about that or, if they do, they have to pretend the whole ‘job creator’ thing isn’t obviously hollow. Instead, conservative economists these days mainly pretend the debt is the biggest issue, despite this being a completely-invented-since-Obama-was-elected issue for them, and despite the fact that right now it’d be cheaper for the US to borrow money than spend tax income on many things because US bonds are selling and basically 0% interest.