{"id":6389,"date":"2016-11-29T12:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2016-11-29T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:02:22","slug":"linked-a-presidents-economic-decisions-matter-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/linked-a-presidents-economic-decisions-matter-eventually\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;A President\u2019s Economic Decisions Matter \u2026 Eventually&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/a-presidents-economic-decisions-matter-eventually\/\">via FiveThirtyEight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But while presidents can\u2019t control how fast the economy grows, they have more influence over how that growth is divided. Presidents probably can\u2019t do much, for example, to bring back lost manufacturing jobs, but they can try to help the workers who lost those jobs. At this week\u2019s convention in Philadelphia, Democrats promised to raise the minimum wage, guarantee paid leave to new parents and hike taxes on the rich; those policies might have long-term effects on the size of the economy, but they would have the far more immediate effect of redistributing income from wealthier Americans to poorer ones. Republicans, of course, propose a different set of policies \u2014 lower taxes, reduced regulation \u2014 that would affect distribution in different ways. (Donald Trump also proposes various policies \u2014 bringing back manufacturing jobs, reducing immigration \u2014 that most economists consider either unrealistic or dangerous.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government\u2019s role in our nation is to act like a boardroom with a CEO. The corporation that is our federal government stimulates spending &amp; growth by investing in education, infrastructure, defense and sciences.<\/p>\n<p>While Congress sets our national budget, the president must sign off and the president can take some steps to influence a bit in how we spend our money and the effects ripple for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via FiveThirtyEight: But while presidents can\u2019t control how fast the economy grows, they have more influence over how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-11-29T15:02:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"69326c2d-7d8e-479c-a412-98001de48555","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-11-29T15:02:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AaTJsLX2OR5ykEpgAHeSFVQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1F3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7621,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/linked-forbes-30-under-30-and-self-made\/","url_meta":{"origin":6389,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Forbes&#8217; 30 under 30 and &#8216;Self-Made&#8217;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"@Hels on Twitter: My take is: all 30 Under 30 lists should include disclosure of parental assets Aditi Juneja (one of the 30 in a rebuttal): Of course, the truth is that none of us are entirely self-made. 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