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Day 10

Submitted by Laurence Kotlikoff on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 18:24

January 16 -- The major German financial newspaper - Handelsblatt -- ran a major story today on my candidacy. I read German, having lived there for a year as an exchange student when I was 16. The article is quite long. It's very complimentary and quotes several German economists saying things that make me blush. But it also spends a fair amount of space dismissing the chances of my winning, quoting Tyler Cowen as saying my goal is to raise the intellectual level of the policy debate.

Day 9

Submitted by Laurence Kotlikoff on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 18:56

Spent today writing an op ed announcing my candidacy. I've submitted it to a leading newspaper. We'll see if it gets in. Also spent some time responding to a Wikinews reporter's questions, including one about former Governor Romer's likely run on the americanselect.com platform. I looked at the Governor's website. It's clear we are in agreement on a number of issues, but far from everything. Most of his policy statements are too vague to know what he intends.

Day 8

Submitted by Laurence Kotlikoff on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 18:42

January 14th -- Finished my issue statement on Immigration and spoke to some members of the press about my candidacy. Expect to see some major articles in leading journals in next couple of weeks. Starting to receive help and encouragement from people all over the world. I've decided to ask people to contribute only $25 unless they can swing more. But that $25 contribution is vital, so if you are reading this and having kicked it in, please do so. With enough small contributions, we can do marvelous things via short videos and social media.

Day 7

Submitted by Laurence Kotlikoff on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 18:35

Worked on formulating issue statements about Israel and the Palestinians, Immigration, and expanding my discussion of Social Issues. They are now posted under issues.

Day 6

Submitted by Laurence Kotlikoff on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 18:32

Appeared on different Fox News show -- Interview with Gerri Willis. We discussed need for President to overcome our macroeconomic coordination failure by figuratively locking the top 1,000 CEO is a room and exhorting them to hire 5 percent more workers with the understanding that were they to do so and were all other large and mid-sized employers to do so, they'd see the extra customers they need to justify producing the extra output their new hires would produce. Gerri seemed to get the point.

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Why Kotlikoff in 2012?

Our country's problems are severe and getting worse. No candidate has all the answers. But the problems we face are primarily economic ones and may be better addressed by someone who has spent his life focused on our economic problems and their solutions. No economist has, to my knowledge, ever run for President. In recent years, we've had a nuclear engineer, an actor, two businessmen, and two lawyers. In their hands, the economy has done very poorly on a number of critical dimensions. In particular, none has come to grips with the country's long-term fiscal insolvency.

We've also been very badly served by the two parties' primary concern -- obtaining and maintaining power. This may work for them, but it's certainly not working for us. It's time to elect someone with fresh, bold ideas that will appeal to all segments of society -- someone with the courage to both articulate and implement what's really needed to fix America.