A postelection forecast: U.S. GDP to grow 2.3 percent in 2017

The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president elicited some late-night and early-morning jitters among global investors, but an economist told IL that regardless of the White House occupant, the U.S. gross domestic product should expand by about 2.3 percent in 2017. The unemployment rate will decline, which will push wages higher, and the nation should […]