To focus on just one point you made: >A lot of economists have a vested interest in pretending that the following policies are generically, speciously "bad for

To focus on just one point you made: >A lot of economists have a vested interest in pretending that the following policies are generically, speciously "bad for the economy", because reasons This sounds like you're saying that the broad consensus among economists from different backgrounds and theoretical stances described in the article I linked can't be trusted because economists are unreliable in general? That doesn't sound like a useful position to take, nor does it actually reference the position outlined and defended in the article.