http://www.reuters.com/economic-dream-team
Brush up on your calculus and multivariate optimization y'all and pick who you think your respective candidates will choose for the most important economic policy positions in the world!
My picks (http://www.reuters.com/economic-dream-team#teams,j1-d-d-16,j1-r-r-30,j2-d-d-27,j2-r-r-19,j3-d-d-56,j3-r-r-28,j4-d-d-53,j4-r-r-25,j5-d-d-3,j5-r-r-26,j6-d-d-35,j6-r-r-43,j7-d-d-48,j7-r-r-23)
Team Clinton: 98
Team Trump: 77
I basically went with the idea of who these candidates would actually pick, along with my somewhat limited knowledge of who some of these people actually are.
Notable picks:
Elizabeth Warren as Commerce Secretary (Clinton) :bleeding:
Larry Kudlow as Commerce Secretary (Trump) :bleeding: :bleeding:
Art Laffer as Chair of CEA (Trump) :bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
Commerce Secretary does nothing meaningful except lead trade delegations. Good place to stash a token.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 19, 2016, 07:06:01 PM
Commerce Secretary does nothing meaningful except lead trade delegations. Good place to stash a token.
But we gotta have the best deals. :mad:
I pick Grimace.
Ed Anger: -15 1% Ick Factor
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 19, 2016, 07:44:03 PM
But we gotta have the best deals. :mad:
Trade Rep makes the best deals.
Shady Lady 80
Orangutan 86
I mixed dems/gop
1%ick
Gave Trump, Bloomberg for TS and Hillary, Carl Ichan for the same.
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 19, 2016, 07:46:32 PM
I pick Grimace.
Which one is Goofus and which is Gallant?
All those people are idiots.
A list on the GOP side would be Mankiw and Kashkari. And Bernanke of course although I didn't know he was a Republican. Hubbard and Holz-Eakin are OK
Democrats have a deeper bench of legit economists -- at least on these lists.