Donald Trump’s surprise win in the Presidential election has introduced uncertainty across a number of policy dimensions, but the likelihood of a significant fiscal stimulus next year points to a pick-up in GDP growth and inflation. That stimulus will provide only a temporary boost to growth, however, and with monetary policy being tightened over the next couple of years, we anticipate a renewed slowdown in GDP growth in 2018 with a rising risk of a recession by 2019.
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