Euro Area Recovery Monitor - 2017-12-13
Jones' win adds urgency to GOP tax push
Donald Luskin, chief investment officer for Trend Macrolytics, said that Republican Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama will be a big incentive for Republican leaders to “drive the negotiations to a conclusion.”
“It makes more urgent the need for the GOP to exploit its 2018 electoral map advantage in the Senate — tax cuts are the perfect trophy to bring the voters, now without the stench of Moore’s sexual misconduct scandals," he wrote in an analysis for investors Tuesday night.
On the Alabama Special Election, and Tax Cuts
The GOP loss creates the deadline that this endless negotiation always needed.
On the December FOMC: Good Job, Chair Yellen
So we were wrong about her: the super-dove who hiked five times and ended QE.