Washington — A slowdown in US growth in 2019 was at least partly the fault of President Donald Trump’s global trade battles and the resulting hit to business investment, the administration's top economist said on Thursday in an outlook for the coming years.
“Once we got renegotiation of trade agreements, we saw uncertainty in the market and investment took a hit,” Tomas Philipson, acting chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in briefing reporters about the CEA’s annual Economic Report of the President...
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