评估经济是一项艰巨的任务，因为它受到意识形态偏见的影响，但值得在即将到来的美国中期选举前几周尝试一下。特朗普主义两年后，美国经济状况如何？这个问题有几个答案，这些答案看似矛盾，取决于一个人的政治倾向。
Assessing the economy is a difficult exercise, burdened as it is by ideological biases, but it is worth attempting just a few weeks ahead of the US midterm elections. After two years of Trumpism, how is the American economy faring? There are several answers to that question, which appear contradictory depending on one's political leanings.
一方面，唐纳德·特朗普一直在赞扬他所谓的“特朗普经济学”成果——这是一种放松管制与保护主义的混合体，资本主义与干预主义的融合，以及为社交媒体时代重新塑造的重商主义。在几乎每次竞选集会上，他宣称美国“比以往任何时候都做得更好”，并补充说“假新闻”媒体拒绝谈论这一点，经常在说这句话时指向新闻发布区。
e side, Donald Trump has praised the results of his "Trumponomics" – a blend of deregulation and protectionism, capitalism mixed with interventionism, and mercantilism reinvented for the era of social media. At nearly every campaign rally, he proclaims that the United States is "doing better than ever before," adding that the "fake news" media refuses to talk about it, often pointing to the press section as he says so.
此外，他用一些数据来支持自己的主张：就业率达到历史最高水平，贫困率降至历史最低点，家庭收入达到历史峰值，出口蓬勃发展——这得益于碳氢化合物——至少在承诺方面，外国投资正在增加，美国股市屡创新高，而且美国在人工智能这一历史上最关键的技术竞赛之一中，以明显优势占据主导地位。这一切都是事实。
Additionally, he has backed up his claims with a few figures: Employment is at an all-time high, poverty is at a record low, household income has reached a historic peak, exports are booming – driven by hydrocarbons – foreign investment, at least in terms of promises, is piling up, the American stock market has broken record after record, and the US is dominating, by a wide margin, one of the most decisive technological races in history: artificial intelligence. All of that is true. You have 67.82% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.