Justin Wolfers
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Do you want to look over the entire last century?
Does it make sense to include the Great Depression?
Who do you want to score the depression against?
On and on it goes.
So you can have a different way of looking at this, which is what are some of the other stereotypes that people carry around in their head?
So one that's really important is people carry around the stereotype that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility.
So this is a case where the budget balance is literally the result of the decisions of the president in Congress.
Like there's no luck.
There's no China.
There's no virus.
There's no financial crisis.
They're like, this is what we're doing.
Reagan blew out the deficits.
Bush blew out the deficit.
Trump blew out the deficit.
Trump came back and blew out the deficit again.
Did I leave out one of the Bushes?
There's so many of them.
I'm sure they both fucked up royalists.