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The US economy is a puzzle but the pieces aren’t fitting together

The US economy is a puzzle but the pieces aren’t fitting together

Bloomberg/Getty Ask almost any economist and they will tell you: US President Donald Trump has been running risks with the world’s largest economy. They say his tariffs and crackdown on immigrants risk a return of 1970s-esque “stagflation”, when a sudden oil shock prompted stagnant growth and spiralling prices, except this time the crisis would be self-inflicted. The White House has …

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