(MENAFN- Asia Times)
A Bloomberg survey this month found that 29 out of 38 economists who responded expect Congress to pass tax-cut legislation by November 2018. The respondents, however, expected the policy changes to add only 0.2% to the economy's growth rate.
'The type of stimulus being talked about is temporary,' Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at consultants IHS Inc, was quoted as saying. 'It won't deliver a sustained increase in growth.'
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