What is Trumponomics?
James Freeman
October 8
Topic
Nearly two years into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, it’s not easy to categorize Mr. Trump’s odd mixture of governmental restraint and federal intrusions. The President’s economic policy features historic tax and regulatory reform to unleash markets along with heavy-handed tariffs and industrial policy to restrain them. Yet, despite such policy uncertainty, which one would expect to discourage long-term commitments, businesses continue to invest. While Mr. Trump has been disrupting open trade across international borders, in many markets within the borders of the United States he has been knocking down barriers to competition and exercising a healthy dose of benign neglect
Speaker: James Freeman
James Freeman is assistant editor of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Bust and Bailouts at Citi,” recognized as a New York Times Editors’
Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the Month. He is a contributor to the Fox News Channel. Before joining the Journal in September 2007, James served as investor advocate at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he encouraged the transformation of financial reporting technology to benefit individual investors. He is a graduate of Yale.