Liza Featherstone is a journalist and professor who writes frequently on labor and student activism. She is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation.
From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.
