AYA Analytica financial health memo January 2019
As of January 2019, this regular podcast is available on our Andy Yeh Alpha fintech network platform . U.S. government shuts down again because House Democrats refuse to spend $5 billion on the border wall . U.S. government shuts down again because House Democrats refuse to spend $5 billion on the border wall that would give President Trump victory on his best-known policy. No other OECD democracy experiences abrupt government shutdowns. Should the current U.S. government shutdown be about policy differences, House Democrats would be able to achieve a compromise deal with the Trump administration. However, this congressional standoff is about presidential authority. President Trump must win this battle; otherwise, he would allow House Democrats to constrain his presidential power. A major concern is that President Trump may use his national emergency power to build the southern steel border wall. In this worse-case scenario, the eventual degradation of good government may con...