Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Taxes, GDP Growth, And The Trump Economy

John Cochrane on the good and the bad of “Trumponomics.”

Matters of Policy & Politics•July 31, 2018
Area 45: Taxes, GDP Growth, And The Trump Economy

A second-quarter GDP that surpassed 4% was cause for a victory lap in the Trump White House last week. Is the exuberance justified? Is the US economy looking at sustained growth or a third-quarter surprise? John Cochrane, the Jack and Rose-Marie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs the good and the bad of “Trumponomics.”

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