What will the Trump presidency mean for the U.S. economy?

Bill Hampel, CUNA’s chief economist and chief policy officer, does a lot of presentations on the economy for credit union leaders.

And until Donald Trump upset the political world, he didn’t have to change it much from event to event.

“This was really easy until a week ago,” Hampel joked at the CUNA Community Credit Union Conference and The Federation 2016 Annual Meeting in Dallas.

So what does the Trump win mean for the U.S. economy?

Trump has some “incredibly different, bold, and radical proposals” in his campaign literature, Hampel says. But what will carry through from the campaign to governing is unclear.

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