Analysis: Bernie Sanders

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Ethan Laird C Period 3/3/2016 Economics Essay
This article discusses the democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s economic plans for when he becomes president. The article focuses on disproving the claims of Gerald Friedman that Bernie Sanders’s program would grow the United States gross domestic product by a third in ten years. These claims are so outstanding an unbelieveable they were bound to attract attention. Two economist that were discussed in the article were Christina Romer and David Romer, who have recently released a forensic examination of Gerald Friedman’s claims. In their examination they found one crucial anomaly in Gerald Friedman’s claims. Most economist think that when government spending increases temporarily

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