The US economy is yet to crack despite President Donald Trump's policies. Photograph: Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg
It would be a disaster for Trump-hating liberals if the US economy manages to forge through the next 12 months without a tariff-induced shock of some sort.
With liberal politicians all but beaten into submission by Trump’s braggadocio, the last hope for his detractors is that his “America First” economic experiment runs aground.
And in a way that can’t be explained away or blamed on his predecessor Joe Biden.
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Economists have, for months, been warning that the president is effectively sabotaging the US economy by placing tariffs on key inputs while stoking an investment freeze with his stop-start policy anno
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