Fed study: Tax cut won’t live up to ‘optimistic’ growth projections

Published July 9, 2018 7:31pm ET



The Trump tax cuts are not likely to live up to the official growth projections because they came at the wrong time of the economic cycle, according to a new Federal Reserve analysis published Monday.

The forecasts that the tax overhaul will boost growth in the years ahead “may be overly optimistic,” economists affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco concluded in a note published by the regional bank.

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