The hype about a Donald Trump bump for the U.S. economy is over
It was expected Trump’s policies would juice the economy in the short term, but his disastrous first six months in office have shown that won’t be the case
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Kevin Carmichael
Kevin Carmichael is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He has written about economics, policy and policy makers for two decades from Ottawa, Washington, Mumbai, and, currently, Montreal.
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