Corporate planners must have a headache as the US political pendulum swings at its fastest rate since World War 2 and the related policy churn may act as a drag on future investment.

It’s easy to get blasé about increasingly polarised US politics, and history may be a poor guide to many unprecedented developments unfolding. But switching economic policy tack every four years surely takes some toll for those needing to think a decade or more hence...

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