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6. Is Laffer so stupid that he doesn't realize we would have had deflation without the stimulus?

Sat Jan 4, 2014, 02:34 PM

Jan 2014

He's still stuck in the 1970s/80s, fighting the last battle. Hack economist.

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Inventor of the Laffer Curve, a ridiculous assumption that louis-t Jan 2014 #2

No, the Laffer Curve is perfectly reasonable. Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #4

I've also heard people misrepresent the Laffer Curve as louis-t Jan 2014 #5

That's only true if we are already to the right of the curve's peak Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #10

This is actually interesting. Benton D Struckcheon Jan 2014 #3

It's a conservative meme that liberals are "stuck in 1968"... JHB Jan 2014 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author JHB Jan 2014 #8

KNR. DirkGently Jan 2014 #11