[Mikeb85]

> financial press, chambers of commerce, think-tank circuit, etc.

Where? It seems most of the economists in these circles ascribe to the Friedman/Chicago school of thought.

> But they're mostly leftists. . .

Even though Austrian economics is associated with the right wing, right wing economists by and large have nothing to do with the Austrian school.

Friedman, Greenspan, Mankiw, Laffer et al are certainly not Austrians.