<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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The real issue is not Krugman's putative brilliance but whether his
arguments are right. Do we know *any* economists who think Trump
knows what he is doing?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I don't think we have sufficiently reliable information on Trump's economic ideas. He does seem to be a run-of-the-mill liberal for the most part (support for single-payer medicine, support for eminent domain, opposition to free trade) but with minor exceptions and all covered up by tons of random bluster and populist demagoguery. </div><div><br></div><div>His business record would indicate a reasonable level of skill in negotiation and management, a high and consistent level of inner drive but with a mercurial superficial persona.</div><div><br></div><div>My guess he will do nothing substantial once elected. He will hire some NP winners to shape economic policy, which may or may not be good for our country. All the wide-eyed horror at his coming will appear silly in retrospect, just as the wide-eyed wonder at Obama's ascension looks stupid now.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał</div></div>
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