Kudlow, a scrivener, doesn't like Trump's plans.
...Trump’s agenda of trade protectionism, dollar devaluation, and immigrant
deportation is completely anti-growth. It’s like Fortress America in an
economy that is completely globalized and where the U.S. must compete
in the worldwide race for capital and labor. Trump’s policies don’t fit....
Kudlow, like a lot of other "economists", never read Keynes' complete works. If he does, he might learn something, specifically that Keynes assumed a closed economy for his 'pump-priming' to work. So Kudlow can have his invasion-of-immigrants OR he can have pump-priming, but not both. (Friedman underlined it with his remark that one cannot have both open borders and a welfare state.)
But hey! Kudlow's part of the Establishment. Being blind, deaf, and dumb is the trademark. It's a bug, not a feature, but it works.
For them, anyway.
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