MNUCHIN laughs at THUNBERG, "get a ECON degree"; WORLD economists say ECON101 will do

[Centerleftfl]

A 16 year old without any degrees gets it right, TRUMP's TOP ECONOMIST makes an ass of himself when a world economist says all anyone needs is ECON 101.

I'm old enough to remember when SHAME and EMBARRASSMENT worked. Trump has NONE. He picked his team with the same character deficit.

Politics
Analysis
Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an economist.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23. (Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

By
Philip Bump
Jan. 23, 2020 at 10:05 a.m. EST

Speaking to reporters at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Switzerland, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was asked about calls from climate change activists such as Greta Thunberg for investors to pull their money out of fossil fuel stocks.

Mnuchin jokingly pretended to be unfamiliar with Thunberg, who even while still a teenager has become a leading global proponent of addressing the warming planet. Last year, she was Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.”

“Is she the chief economist or who is she? I’m confused,” Mnuchin said of Thunberg. He questioned her credentials to offer solutions: “After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.”

The Washington Post contacted someone who did study economics in college and asked him to explain it to us. Gernot Wagner is an economist who has a joint A.B. in economics and environmental science in public policy from Harvard University, a master’s degree in economics from Stanford University, a master’s in political economy in government from Harvard, and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard.

According to Wagner, Thunberg doesn’t need to go much further than
Economics 101 to make her case.
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Speaking specifically about calls to divest, Wagner pointed to a letter released this month by BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink. In it, Fink announced the asset management firm he controls will divest — move investments away — from companies like those that are centered on fossil fuels and contribute to climate change.

“The evidence on climate risk is compelling investors to reassess core assumptions about modern finance,” Fink wrote in the letter, according to the New York Times.

“It’s precisely this scenario of having fossil fuels go the way of tobacco that makes fossil fuel execs the most nervous,” Wagner told The Post. He noted that Shell Oil Co. predicted the rise of activists focused on climate change — back in 1998...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...nl_most&wpmm=1

[Centerleftfl]

THIS Steve Mnuchin and his rich bitch member of the 2nd wives club.



PS Apparently HER antidote to the look of that first photo was to do a interview with ELLE, where she posed again...

[IMG]https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/louise-1-1518463401.jpg?resize=480:*[/IMG]

You can't make this shit up folks!


https://www.elle.com/culture/career-...on-march-2018/

[Cinnabar]

THIS Steve Mnuchin and his rich bitch member of the 2nd wives club.

Mnuchin is another despicable POS Trump added to the cesspool of his administration.

[Centerleftfl]

Mnuchin is another despicable POS Trump added to the cesspool of his administration.

He truly is arrogant low life. I have no idea who his connections were. A nice NY Jewish boy. (Okay, maybe this one was never nice). What are his GOP connections?

(Trump with his 'things and people must look GOOD'. Mnunchin looks like a class 1 nerd and has a voice made for closed captioning)

[Cinnabar]

He truly is arrogant low life. I have no idea who his connections were. A nice NY Jewish boy. (Okay, maybe this one was never nice). What are his GOP connections?

(Trump with his 'things and people must look GOOD'. Mnunchin looks like a class 1 nerd and has a voice made for closed captioning)

He's a thief and a fellow sociopath.

[TOP]

He truly is arrogant low life. I have no idea who his connections were. A nice NY Jewish boy. (Okay, maybe this one was never nice). What are his GOP connections?

(Trump with his 'things and people must look GOOD'. Mnunchin looks like a class 1 nerd and has a voice made for closed captioning)

I'm sorry you're having another really bad day...perhaps a nice "cruise" is in order....you need to relax

[Centerleftfl]

I'm sorry you're having another really bad day...perhaps a nice "cruise" is in order....you need to relax

I live in FLORIDA, frankly I don't need a cruise. And remember NEWS travels.

Idiot.

[TOP]

I live in FLORIDA, frankly I don't need a cruise. And remember NEWS travels.

Idiot.

You need a "cruise"...there's nothing to see here...no news to travel....

[Mason Michaels]

I'm sorry you're having another really bad day...perhaps a nice "cruise" is in order....you need to relax

STFU scum

[Mason Michaels]

You need a "cruise"...there's nothing to see here...no news to travel....

Speaking of Trump scum here's the leader of the pack

[Centerleftfl]

STFU scum

I have no idea MNUCHIN'S appeal to Trump. Never did. He DID give a $1mil to Trump's campaign which certainly got their attention. After that, I have no idea what he offered.

[cancel2 2022]

THIS Steve Mnuchin and his rich bitch member of the 2nd wives club.



PS Apparently HER antidote to the look of that first photo was to do a interview with ELLE, where she posed again...

[IMG]https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/louise-1-1518463401.jpg?resize=480:*[/IMG]

You can't make this shit up folks!


https://www.elle.com/culture/career-...on-march-2018/

You can, almost all the time!

[cancel2 2022]

I'm sorry you're having another really bad day...perhaps a nice "cruise" is in order....you need to relax

She needs to go swim with the fishes!

[cancel2 2022]

Speaking of Trump scum here's the leader of the pack

What's happened to all your socks, are they in the wash?

[anonymoose]

He truly is arrogant low life. I have no idea who his connections were. A nice NY Jewish boy. (Okay, maybe this one was never nice). What are his GOP connections?

(Trump with his 'things and people must look GOOD'. Mnunchin looks like a class 1 nerd and has a voice made for closed captioning)

But damn he’s got a hot wife.