Clinton: Trump’s Economic Policies ‘Would Throw Us Into A Recession’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tours 3 Daughters Brewery in St. Petersburg, Fla., Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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During a Monday rally in St. Petersburg, Florida, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump’s plans are “the last thing” that the United States economy needs.

“Here’s the deal. He can’t escape the math,” Clinton said. “And economists, left, right, in the middle, all say the same thing — that Trump’s policies would throw us into a recession, the last thing we need. He would undermine the growth that we have had since the Great Recession.”

She went on to cite a Moody’s Analytics report, cowritten by former McCain economic policy advisor Mark Zandi, which forecast that Trump’s policies would result in the loss of 3.5 million jobs over the course of his four years in office.

In an economic policy speech in Detroit earlier the same day, Trump aired a laundry list of previously debunked falsehoods, casting his proposals as the antithesis of Clinton and Obama’s positions.

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  1. HRC’s “opinion” on this topic is something that has been backed up by numerous, independent economists.

    It’s a FACT.

  2. The proper word is “DEPRESSION” (and a couple of wars on the side.)

  3. ah yes
    Except they present Donald’s peon to the Laffer curve suppressing the laugh track and then with no critique follow up with"Democrats say"
    What passes for Nooze

  4. That’s right, Hillary, hit a man when he’s down. There ya go, playing the woman card again.

  5. I’d like to know if Donnie will propose returning to the gold standard and set the price @$40/tr oz…

    need to take a short position if he is…

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