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Grüezi Amerika Episode 46 – Trumponomics 2.0 with Professor Rüdiger Bachmann

61 percent of Americans feel that the economy is getting worse. Is there anything in the toolbox of Trumponomics that can remedy the current situation?

Uncertainty on the tariff front, the war in Iran with the blockage of the strait of Hormuz, and a dissatisfied population: 61 percent of Americans feel that the economy is getting worse, and many wonder how the president wants to turn the situation around prior to the Midterm elections on November 3. Is there anything in the toolbox of Trumponomics 2.0 that can remedy the current situation? Or are things not as bleak as people feel? At the occasion of the 55th St.Gallen Symposium, "Grüezi Amerika" seized the opportunity to discuss these questions with Rüdiger Bachmann.

Professor Rüdiger Bachmann is a renowned economist with a truly transatlantic career: after his studies at the University of Mainz, he went to Yale University and started his academic career in the Midwest, at the University of Michigan. Before returning to Ann Arbor as a full professor, he held positions at RWTH Aachen, the University of Frankfurt and at the University of Notre Dame, in addition to several guest appointments. He regularly provides commentary on US politics and economics in media outlets such as Deutschlandfunk, ARD, and Phoenix.