“This is the president’s vision,” said Peter Navarro, Trump’s ascendant trade adviser. “My function, really, as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right in these matters” https://bloom.bg/2Fv7yEm
1. If you think anyone's intuition is always right, you’re not thinking. 2. Analytics exist to challenge intuition, not confirm it. 3. Falling victim to blatant confirmation bias is bad. Saying it’s your job as an economist is even worse.
