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This document is an email sent on August 12, 2011, from Sultan Bin Sulayem to Jeffrey Epstein (jeevacation@gmail.com) with high importance. The body of the email consists entirely of a pasted Newsmax.com article featuring an interview with economist Arthur Laffer, who criticizes the Obama administration's economic policies and discusses the US credit rating downgrade.
People (6)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Sultan Bin Sulayem | Sender |
Sent an email containing a Newsmax article to Jeffrey Epstein.
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| Jeffrey Epstein | Recipient |
Received the email at jeevacation@gmail.com.
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| Arthur Laffer | Subject of Article |
Economist interviewed by Newsmax regarding US economic policy.
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| Barack Obama | US President (mentioned) |
Mentioned in article regarding economic policies.
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| Austen Goolsbee | Council of Economic Advisors Chairman (mentioned) |
Laffer was asked by the White House to speak to him.
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| Ben Bernanke | Federal Reserve Chairman (mentioned) |
Criticized by Laffer for monetary policy.
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| Newsmax |
Source of the article text within the email.
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| White House |
Mentioned as contacting Laffer.
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| Council of Economic Advisors |
Austen Goolsbee's affiliation.
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| Standard & Poor’s |
Credit rating agency mentioned in the article.
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| Moody’s |
Credit rating agency mentioned in the article.
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| Fitch |
Credit rating agency mentioned in the article.
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Relationships (2)
Sulayem sending Epstein news articles marked 'High' importance.
The White House asked Laffer to speak to Goolsbee.
Key Quotes (4)
"Reaganomics would fix any economy that’s in the doldrums"Source
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"Ben Bernanke is running the least sound monetary policy I’ve ever heard of"Source
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"Government spending causes unemployment, it does not cure unemployment."Source
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"If you had a company that had revenues of $2½ million and expenses of $4 million... I surely wouldn’t rate it AAA."Source
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From: Sultan Bin Sulayem [REDACTED]
Sent: 8/12/2011 2:43:12 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 8/12/2011 2:43:12 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Importance: High
Newsmax.com
Laffer: Obama Must Use Reaganomics to Save Economy The only way President Barack Obama can solve the nation’s economic woes is to adopt “common-sense” Reaganomics, the policy’s architect Arthur Laffer claims in an exclusive Newsmax interview.
Laffer: Obama Must Use Reaganomics to Save Economy The only way President Barack Obama can solve the nation’s economic woes is to adopt “common-sense” Reaganomics, the policy’s architect Arthur Laffer claims in an exclusive Newsmax interview.
Laffer said the White House called him in the spring and asked him to speak to Obama’s former Council of Economic Advisors’ chairman Austen Goolsbee – and he had told him exactly the same thing.
“Reaganomics would fix any economy that’s in the doldrums,” Laffer said. “It’s not a magic sauce, it’s common sense.
“You’ve got to get rid of all federal taxes in the extreme and replace them with a low-rate flat tax on business net sales, and on personal unadjusted gross income. That’s number one.
“Number two, you have to have spending restraint. Government spending causes unemployment, it does not cure unemployment.
“Number three, you need sound money. Ben Bernanke is running the least sound monetary policy I’ve ever heard of," Laffer said.
“Number four you need regulations, but you don’t need those regulations to go beyond the purpose at hand and create collateral damage. The regulatory policies are really way off here.
“And lastly you need free trade," Laffer said. "Foreigners produce some things better than we do and we produce some things better than foreigners. It would be foolish in the extreme if we didn’t sell them those things we produce better than they do in exchange for those things they produce better than we do.”
In the interview the veteran economist said Standard & Poor’s was quite right in downgrading the U.S. credit rating – in fact it should have done so far earlier.
The agency had no choice and if the other agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, don’t do the same they won’t be doing their jobs, said Laffer, who gave his name to the Laffer Curve which demonstrates that the maximum amount of government revenue does not come at the point of maximum taxes.
[Image Icon] “If you had a company that had revenues of $2½ million and expenses of $4 million, with no change in sight, $1½ million in losses each year as far as the eye can see and it had already borrowed $10 million, what would you rate that company? I surely wouldn’t rate it AAA.
“That is the U.S. situation today," Laffer said. "Taxes are about $2½ trillion, government spending is about $4 trillion and we have about $10 trillion in net national debt. I don’t see that as being a AAA country.
“If the S&P and the others were doing their jobs correctly, they should have downgraded a long time ago.”
Laffer said he has no doubt the country will win its top rating back, but only when economic policies are
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