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Monday, 21 November 2016

What will Trump’s economic policy look like? Start here.

It’s all Trump, all the time in the global business press, and two of the more important pieces we’ve read in the past couple of days are in the Wall Street Journal (so, yes, paywall, we’re afraid). One looks at the split in Trump’s economic advisors between the “supply siders” and the “zero-sum crowd,” particularly on trade policy — and comes to the conclusion that it’s probably too early to come to a conclusion.

Deeper insight is on offer in an interview with David Malpass, the man tasked with leading the Trump administration’s transition for the Treasury Department and for economic policy. The former Bear Stearns chief economist is a veteran of the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

If you’re looking for the inside-baseball nuts and bolts of how Trump’s econ policy could be shaped, read both pieces, then head over to Politico to get a sense of how debate is shaping up on Trump’s USD 1 tn infrastructure plan, which the high-metabolism political news site says is running into “DC speed bumps.”

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