ECONOMIST FRIENDS who have served in government like to joke that after a newly arrived president has finished admiring the Oval Office, he starts hunting for the secret room containing the knobs that control the economy. It’s always a fruitless search. Still, presidents are not completely powerless to affect the economy.
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