Krugman, NYT OP Ed "The Day the Trump Boom Died"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/opinion/trump-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

big snip (the beginning)

sorry about the paywall. My favorite parts are the end - last three paragraphs below.

I suspect, however, that there’s even more to the story. Business interests spent a long time in denial, but now even they are facing up to the reality that Trump and his team are very strange people who have no idea what they’re doing — and the uncertainty that reality implies.

I mean, considering that trade confrontation with China is the centerpiece of Trump’s economic policy, it’s not reassuring to learn that his trade war czar, Peter Navarro, has an imaginary friend — a source named “Ron Vara” whom he has repeatedly cited in his books, but who doesn’t exist, and whose name is in fact just an anagram of “Navarro.”

Next year’s election should be about Trump’s betrayal of his oath of office. Realistically, however, it also matters that the economy probably won’t be his friend.