Karl W. Smith, Columnist

Trump Should Be Worried About These Economic Trends

Even if the U.S. is able to avoid a recession, a stalling economy would all but doom the president’s chances of re-election.

September 10, 2019 at 6:00 AM EDT

By Karl W. Smith

Karl W. Smith is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. Previously, he was vice president for federal policy at the Tax Foundation and assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina.

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Not so long ago, the economy was President Donald Trump’s greatest strength. Now it is becoming his greatest liability.

At the end of spring, the data were mostly strong but with some ominous signs for the president: A lot of the economic trends were eerily similar to those in 2015 that doomed Democratic presidential chances in 2016.

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