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How to invest during the Trump presidency
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The new US administration is presenting investors with outsize rewards and monumental risks right from the start.
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Jeff Sommer
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“The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since that US Republican president uttered it before an assembly of newspaper editors a century ago.
But the notion that the business of America is business was on conspicuous display at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.