In Trump Markets, Big Question Is How Much ‘MAGA’ 2.0 Will Cost
- Wall Street games out fiscal and monetary impact of a new era
- Stocks, bonds in different regimes versus Trump’s first term
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Investors bracing for President Donald Trump 2.0 know two things: The new administration will seek to ram through his “Make America Great Again” agenda, and the ensuing bill could be sky-high.
The Republican victor is poised to unleash a fresh round of policies — tariffs, tax cuts, immigration crackdowns — to both boost economic growth and shield the nation from an influx of low-cost, overseas goods and workers. While Trump’s first term featured similar policies and coincided with a boom in corporate profits, these measures, implemented now, threaten to rekindle an inflation spiral that took years to quell in the aftermath of the pandemic.