Economic Insights – January 2018

Last January, when the economy was just beginning to emerge from the dark and pessimistic Obama malaise, the Business Briefings Editors offered this vision of the period just ahead:

We can already foresee the departure of the public-policy elites who gave us the last eight-to-sixteen years of fiscal policy, and their replacement with an all-star cast from the real economy.  Those new players are promising to abandon the old ideas that have failed us, and free the markets to take full advantage the Deployment Phase of .....