Galbraith for The Nation: “Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy”

You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government.

“What to make of the blur of news, revolutionary rhetoric, panicky fundraising texts, economic indicators, the plunging stock market, and, of course, President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025? Are we on the brink of a socioeconomic Armageddon? Or is there—as the great Tallulah Bankhead once said, ‘less in this than meets the eye’?”

Read the new Op-Ed from Senior Scholar, James K. Galbraith for The Nation, discussing the state of the US economy, what is worrying, and the distinct forces at work in Trump’s economics.

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