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Related: About this forumDean Baker: NYT Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/nyt-invents-left-leaning-economists-to-attack-bernie-sandersThe eminent economist Dean Baker:
A NYT piece headlined left-leaning economists question cost of Bernie Sanders plans may have misled readers about the extent of skepticism among economists who consider themselves left-leaning. I can say this as a card-carrying left-leaning economist who often talks to other card-carrying left-leaning economists.
While there are undoubtedly many left of center economists who have serious objections to the proposals Sanders has put forward, there are also many who have publicly indicated support for them. Remarkably, none of those economists were referenced in this article. In fact, to make its case on left of center economists views, the NYT even presented the comments of Ezra Klein, who is neither an economist nor a liberal, by his own identification...
The purpose of raising interest rates is to slow the economy and the rate of job creation, ostensibly to prevent inflation. The people who will be disproportionately hurt by slower job growth and high unemployment are African American and Hispanic. NYT readers would likely be interested in knowing how Secretary Clinton can reconcile her commitment to helping African Americans and Hispanics with her apparent lack of concern over the Feds decision to raise interest rates and deny them jobs.
Whatever standard of scrutiny the NYT chooses to apply to presidential candidates it should apply them equally. It is not good reporting to apply one standard to Senator Sanders, and even inventing credentials to press its points, and then apply lesser standards to the other candidates.
While there are undoubtedly many left of center economists who have serious objections to the proposals Sanders has put forward, there are also many who have publicly indicated support for them. Remarkably, none of those economists were referenced in this article. In fact, to make its case on left of center economists views, the NYT even presented the comments of Ezra Klein, who is neither an economist nor a liberal, by his own identification...
The purpose of raising interest rates is to slow the economy and the rate of job creation, ostensibly to prevent inflation. The people who will be disproportionately hurt by slower job growth and high unemployment are African American and Hispanic. NYT readers would likely be interested in knowing how Secretary Clinton can reconcile her commitment to helping African Americans and Hispanics with her apparent lack of concern over the Feds decision to raise interest rates and deny them jobs.
Whatever standard of scrutiny the NYT chooses to apply to presidential candidates it should apply them equally. It is not good reporting to apply one standard to Senator Sanders, and even inventing credentials to press its points, and then apply lesser standards to the other candidates.
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Dean Baker: NYT Invents Left-Leaning Economists to Attack Bernie Sanders (Original Post)
HomerRamone
Feb 2016
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frylock
(34,825 posts)1. kick
amborin
(16,631 posts)2. yes, & NPR, too; disgusting. e.g. ny times itself describes Goolsbee as a centrist & pro free trade
Red Oak
(697 posts)3. Shows what we are up against!
The establishment does not want Bernie to win an they will fight us tooth and nail.
So be it.