Trump-o-nomics

It’s still a bit early to say much, but readers have asked for a take on Trumponomics and what the results of the election might mean to your personal finances. I think we can all probably agree with The Economist when it wrote in late November, “For the moment, the policy priorities of the Trump administration-in-waiting are a basket of unknowables.”  To the extent that we can rely upon probability theory and early indications, we can make some pretty well-educated guesses about what could happen going forward. So here goes.