Trump economy 'already ending badly': global economy-watcher

Trump economy 'already ending badly': global economy-watcher
Random, erratic, naive and with his finger on the pulse of the Western democratic itch? (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
The chaos of US President Donald Trump’s administration will be the catalyst for a “sea change in the world”, but the new world order will be made by someone else, global economy-watcher Andrew Hunt says.The Trump administration is currently too “erratic”, “random”, and “naïve” to implement a replacement for the current orthodoxy based on cross-border deregulation of people, capital, and goods and services.Hunt told BusinessDesk that instead, "we’re entering a world of repatr...

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