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From: ed.dunbar@gmail.com
On 27 Jun 2024, J Carlson posted some
news:v5lcju$34tm5$13@dont-email.me:
> Spending less than revenue is the means by which debt is eliminated,
> something ignorant Democrats have never learned.
One of the economists is married to a top Biden official and donated $25K
to Biden Victory Fund
FIRST ON FOX: A letter signed by 16 top economists warning of the economic
dangers of electing former President Trump, which is being amplified by
the Biden campaign and other Biden surrogates, is littered with
signatories who have either donated to Biden or supported him politically
in the past.
"While each of us has different views on the particulars of various
economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden's economic agenda is vastly
superior to Donald Trump," the economists wrote in a letter first reported
on by Axios this week that has been promoted by various members of the
Biden campaign on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The letter’s Nobel Prize-winning signatories show political donations to
President Biden's 2020 and 2024 campaigns. The signatories also donated
tens of thousands of dollars to other Democrat candidates and signed
previous letters supporting Biden's agenda, including attacking "selfish
and reckless" Trump, a Fox News Digital review found.
Economist Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University professor who
reportedly spearheaded the letter, previously signed a letter supporting
Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and donated $1,250 to the Biden Victory
Fund in 2020.
Between 2004 and 2020, Stiglitz donated over $90,000 to Democrat
candidates, FEC records show.
Georgetown University Professor George A. Akerlof, who is married to
Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, donated $25,000 to the Biden
Victory Fund and maxed out as a donor in 2020, giving the campaign $5,600.
Akerlof, who donated nearly $90,000 to Democrats between the 1990s and
2022, also signed a letter supporting Build Back Better, and signed a
letter in 2020 calling Trump’s re-election effort "selfish and reckless."
Harvard University economist and historian Claudia Goldin donated $500 to
the Biden campaign in 2020 and 2024 and has donated over $8,000 to
Democrats in recent years. Goldin also signed a 2020 letter endorsing the
Biden campaign.
Economist and mathematician Eric Maskin signed a 2020 letter expressing
support for the Biden campaign’s agenda and donated $3,000 to Democrats in
recent years, including Senate candidates Raphael Warnock, Beto O’Rourke
and Jon Ossoff.
When reached for comment on his background supporting Biden and Democrats,
Maskin said, "Although I am a registered Democrat and have donated money
to Democratic candidates on occasion, I have also voted for many
Republicans over the years (including Bill Weld and Charlie Baker for
governor of Massachusetts)" in a statement to Fox News Digital.
He added that he considers himself to "be more a centrist than a strong
partisan in either ideological direction" and pointed to an op-ed he
recently wrote against political polarization in favor of a Republican
senator and "supported the 2020 Biden agenda on its economic merits and
signed the recent letter for the same reasons."
Paul Milgrom, an economist at Stanford University, also previously signed
letters supporting Build Back Better and calling Trump’s 2020 campaign
"selfish and reckless."
Daniel McFadden, an economics professor at UC Berkeley, donated at least
$4,500 to Democrats in 2020. He also signed onto a letter saying Biden's
Build Back Better plan will "ease" inflation. He was also part of another
letter endorsing Biden in 2020.
Roger Myerson, an economist at the University of Chicago, donated $2,350
to the Biden campaign in 2020 and $250 in 2024 on top of donating over
$40,000 to Democrats between 2004 and 2024.
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