The president’s big economic achievements were wrapped up in 2019. Now Trump needs momentum in the economy and markets to stretch out for more than 10 months through Election Day.
Most of the economic gifts President Donald Trump is going to get for 2020 are already unwrapped and out from under the tree.
The Federal Reserve slashed rates and went dark. The “phase one” China deal is pretty much done. So is the new NAFTA.
That leaves one big question for a recently impeached president as he heads for a dicey reelection bid: What’s left to goose markets and the economy beyond what most expect will be a pretty blah 2020?