Kan Chen
10 Aug 2017
Macroeconomics analysis
BBVA Compass economists: Even if enacted at full strength, Trump’s economic agenda would yield mixed results
During the presidential election, then-presidential-candidate Donald Trump proposed various plans aiming to boost the U.S. economy to a state of higher economic growth, high labor participation rate, low unemployment, and reduced trade deficits. Specifically, those plans asked for increasing infrastructure spending and implementing protectionist trade policies.