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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEconomists are fleeing the Trump administration. That's a worrying sign for the future of the countr
Economists are fleeing the Trump administration. That's a worrying sign for Trump and the future of the country.
https://www.businessinsider.com/economists-flee-trump-administration-signaling-bad-news-economy-2020-7
An exodus of senior officials from a presidential administration toward the end of a term is not an uncommon phenomenon. The officials have put in their time. They have tried to contribute to better policy (at least, in their view). So it is time for them to move on.
But to see several senior economists leave the Trump administration during the past few weeks is extremely unsettling especially in these fraught times. Tomas Philipson, who had been the Acting Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), left at the end of June allegedly because of too many clashes with the politicos to return to the University of Chicago. Because the CEA was already down to only two of the mandated three members there is now a single CEA member: Tyler Goodspeed, who now has the position of Acting Chair.
Kevin Hassett who had been Philipson's predecessor as CEA Chair returned to the Trump administration as an unpaid senior advisor earlier this year, but he has departed. Andrew Olmem, deputy director of the National Economic Council (which is separate from the CEA), left in mid-June; although he has been replaced, this is not a good time to be seeing turnover. Bimal Patel, a senior Treasury Official responsible for financial institutions, departed in early July.
This slew of departureseven with some replacementsleaves the Trump administration bereft of trained economics expertise and continuity in the job.
elleng
(130,902 posts)NOT the future of the country; WE don't need THEM.
TexasTowelie
(112,168 posts)we are screwed.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)The "stable genius" knows more than all the experts.
retread
(3,762 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)have lines of the same people wanting back in to help repair America from the deep damage of trump/GOP