Trump’s economist

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Bloomberg has an interesting article about an economist Donald Trump relies upon for advice on economics.

When talk turns to Donald Trump’s economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore are the two most familiar names. Yet there is another economist associated with Trump who is perhaps the most influential of the lot, and that is Peter Navarro at the University of California at Irvine.

He teaches at a highly regarded research university, has extensive private sector, investment, and media experience, has a Ph.D from Harvard, has written on management and wrote an investment newsletter. His documentary, “Death by China,” is available on YouTube and Netflix.

He has largely operated under the radar, perhaps because he is a successful but not famous academic. In reality, he has been one of the most versatile and productive American economists of the last few decades, and has played a leading role in turning the Republican Party away from what’s left of its historical optimism about U.S.-China relations.