Based on what Trump said during his campaign, there’s no harm in identifying potential winners and losers. You can even speculate on which leading consumer stocks will benefit.
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But even with more conventional incoming presidents, events have a way of making seers look like fools. What would the first term of George W. Bush have looked like had 9/11 not occurred? What about his second term, if the financial system hadn’t nearly cratered?
With a President-elect as unconventional as Donald Trump – a man with no experience as an elected official, a man whose policy pronouncements follow no discernible ideology, and a man who says he’s his own best advisor – who can tell whether he will make decisions based on the odds of passage, a considered worldview, or the exigencies and/or his fancy at any particular moment.
