Doing the sums on Donald Trump economics

It may be time to think the unthinkable. Donald Trump in the White House, not as a dinner time visitor in a tuxedo just passing through, but as full-time resident for the following four, perhaps eight years.

The wheel may yet come off the bandwagon, of course. That said, the time is coming to consider the economic and financial implications of a Trump presidency.

Let us imagine that the Republicans also retain a large degree of control over both the Senate and the House of Representatives, following the November elections, allowing the newly elected president to start implementing his pre-election commitments.