Richard Dunbar, investment director, global equities, at SWIP, reflects on past election battles and asks: do the proposals of candidates really matter?
As the quadrennial battle for the White House heats up, and the candidates try to win the hearts and minds of the US electorate, what promises have been made? From taxes and healthcare, to defence spending and immigration, each man is proposing radically different ways of governing. But do their proposals really matter? As ever in a US election, the handling or mishandling of the economy is centre stage. President Obama was dealt an awful hand in 2008: the financial world was in disarray and many feared the US was headed for a second Great Depression. But despite this – and in t...
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