Paul Krugman on Jeb Bush's ludicrous, self-aggrandizing economic claims:Bubble!

It’s tempting! to ridicule! Jeb Bush! over his ludicrous campaign logo! But it would be wrong.

He should, instead, be ridiculed over his ludicrous, self-aggrandizing economic claims.

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Consider, if you will, the contrast. Hillary Clinton has come under some criticism over the question of whether she really has a plan to achieve her populist agenda. Are there really policies that can reverse the rise in inequality? Could she get them through Congress?

But Jeb! is living in a world of pure fantasy, in which supply-side policies can produce economic miracles despite abundant evidence that they do no such thing. He’s even put a ludicrous number on the goal — 4 percent growth, which nobody has any idea how to achieve.

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