The Economist Who Predicted Trump and Brexit Explains How Baby Boomers Ruined Everything

The Economist Who Predicted Trump and Brexit Explains How Baby Boomers Ruined Everything

A conversation with Mark Blyth, a professor at Brown University.

In his half-year as president, Donald Trump has thankfully, at the bare minimum, not had a chance to follow through on one of his most nitwitted promises: treating the full faith and credit of U.S. Treasury debt like his corporate bankruptcy negotiations . Which means, for now, the American economy is intact. Pretty much the way President Obama left it after presiding over the addition of 15 million jobs, with unemployment hovering below 5 percent and the stock market soaring. (Look to Obama’s farewell speeches for more.)

Yet, for many Americans, […]

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