16 Nobel Prize-winning economists claim Trump will wreck our economy. This is the reason I don't trust them
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Academic economists’ recent record of political advocacy is a potent reminder of why Americans have come to dismiss the dismal science
The further politicization of economic ‘science’ is an unwelcome development for a discipline that should be focused on rebuilding its credibility after the economic policy errors of recent years. Scott Bessent serves as chief executive officer and chief investment officer for Key Square Group LP, a Connecticut-based investment partnership that he founded in 2015. Bessent was chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management (SFM), the investment vehicle for the Soros Family and their foundations, from 2011 to 2015. He was an adjunct professor of Economic History at Yale University from 2006-2011.
The contrast between President Trump and President Biden’s economic records could not be more clear. President Trump’s record of tax reform and deregulation powered the American economy to the fastest real wage increases in a generation. Real incomes increased by nearly 10% from 2017 to 2019, with real wages rising fastest among lower income workers.