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Why Trump-O-Nomics Will Fail, Part 1

Why Trump-O-Nomics Will Fail, Part 1

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May 14, 2025
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If you have even a middling regard for sound money, fiscal rectitude, free markets, minimum government and maximum liberty you should have no illusions about Trump-O-Nomics. There is no reason to expect it to succeed because it’s the embodiment of half-baked, mainly political propositions that are bound to fail.

Indeed, at its core Trump-O-Nomics is just Caesarean Statism in the form of a dog’s breakfast of peeves, prejudices, platitudes and populism that the Donald has accumulated over a lifetime of pontificating much and learning little. Trump-O-Nomics is thus—

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