Author: John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra

Donald Trump inherited a strong economy from President Obama and managed it poorly. Real GDP grew more slowly under Trump than it had under any president since the second world war. He was the only president since then to preside over a fall in the number of workers with a job. In 2016, the United States (US) economy was the world’s largest; by 2020 China’s was more than 10% bigger. Trump’s economic policies Would a second Trump presidency be any better? Hopefully, there will not be another pandemic for him to mismanage. But his policies suggest the economy would again…