Tag Archives: Clintonomics

Making Merica Great! (Stand at the Bloomsburg Fair, in central PA) This is always a complicated question, since most people tend to think that their candidate won. And you may ask: who cares? After all debates have probably limited impact on the elections outcome anyway. But I think it is important to note that while most of the media (yes, I follow the liberal media) suggests that Hillary won (see here or here or here), one should take those results with a grain of salt.I think the...

At The Nation. Few important points. As Bob notes Hillary does invoke the mantle of Clintonomics. In his words: "In trying to burnish her credentials as a can-do populist and to portray Bernie Sanders as a purveyor of naive socialist fantasies, Hillary Clinton has increasingly invoked Bill Clinton’s presidency as her economic policy lodestar."  And Bill Clinton's program was not really progressive. Again: "The starting point for understanding Bill Clinton’s economic program is to recognize...