In the Margins

Trump: A Nixon throwback (on economics)

December 14, 2015

By MarketWatch

Donald Trump is an odd presidential candidate in many ways, but his hodgepodge of economic views reveal an old-style populist and modern media maven who combines some traditional conservative positions with ideas long tied to the political left. The Republican Party hasn’t fielded a candidate who departs so much from conservative economic orthodoxy since Richard Nixon in 1972. Read the original story from MarketWatch.

 

 

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