Tricke, a dollar treat!

So, Goldie, it's that time of year again and Halloween is right around the corner.

Oh yeah.

What are you going to be for Halloween?

I'm going to dress up as the scariest thing I can think of,

neoliberalism.

It's fantastic.

But how does one dress as a neoliberal?

Any way you want, as long as you just say that you are for tax cuts for the rich deregulation of the powerful and wage suppression for everybody else, you are a neoliberal. Exactly exactly it doesn't really matter what

you wear doesn't matter what you wear you had for Halloween you had a great

idea for a special edition of Pitch Fork Economics?

Exactly, it's Trickle Down or Treat.

Ooh, our spooky Halloween edition.

Super scary and honestly there isn't anything scarier than terrible neoliberal

economic ideas so if you think slashers are dangerous oh my god you've never met an economist. Exactly. They've killed

more people than all the scary monsters in the world combined. They really

have it is quite astonishing. I mean if you consider what steps you could take to harm people at scale

That's right Freddie Krueger's got nothing on Milton Friedman.

Exactly.

I mean if you really want to really bring harm to millions and millions of vulnerable families,

convincing people that raising wages kills jobs is a far meaner and more

sinister thing to do than chainsawing a few of them in half.

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