The following article by Andrew Soergel was posted on the U.S. News and World Report website August 31, 2018:
The economy was strong through the first half of 2018, but few analysts see the good times continuing.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP rode into the White House on the backs of what many experts considered to be fairly lofty economic promises – chief among them the claim that he’d be able to jump-start a slow but steady economic recovery into a full-fledged boom.
While the president has at times speculated that he’ll be able to get the U.S. into a groove that will see annual economic growth as high as 6 percent, for the most part he has set a much lower target of 3 percent.
And in his second year in office, it’s looking like U.S. GDP is going to get awfully close to that benchmark.