[TheRealThing]

Tell me if I am mistaken, but I don't believe that you have ever taken your first class in economics. I am no expert in economics, but I have taken several classes on the subject. One does not need to be an expert to know that Friedman and Hayek are two of the most important economists in history, but one must be pretty ignorant of the subject to deny that to be a fact.

You keep dropping names to defend Trump, but do you really believe that Trump's economic advisers agreed with his threat to impose up to a 45 percent tariff on all Chinese imports? I know that Laffer would not support such an action. He dismissed Trump's threat as political rhetoric and has given assurances that if elected, Trump will support free trade policies.

Those were Trump's words. If quoting a candidate's own words is unfairly characterizing him, what is the fair way to characterize such a buffoon?

LOL, a better question would be when, as of late, are you not either mistaken or making false statements?; But yes you are quite mistaken and yes, I have taken college level economics. And I'm just not going to bite on your deflections anymore. Frankly to my memory it was in times past, but I was the first between the two of us to cite Milton Friedman in a post anyway. But this conversation isn't and wasn't about him. On the contrary, it is and was about your patently false statement of which I have been quoting you on now for lo these last 8 or ten posts now. You made another libelous slander against Trump, (the afore mentioned and oft quoted) and now you're trying to hide behind some smoke screen about Milton Friedman. Milton Friedman cannot be on Trump's advisory team because he is unfortunately, passed on. His proteges or associates as they may prefer to be called, are however still with us and are part of Mr Trump's economic advisory team.

The tariff no matter the percentage as I have told you repeatedly, is a tool, a potential, in the negotiators tool box and as such, should not be taken off the table before negotiations are even convened.

So, if you want to get technical about it, if Milton Friedman's ideas are in a sense timeless, then so too are those associated with him and who now carry on his work. And those who do carry on with his work, now work for Donald J. Trump.