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With the latest data — which includes significant revisions to past numbers — we have a better picture of the Trump economic record so far. It's underwhelming 1/
No sign up 4 percent growth, or even 3 percent growth except for a brief period, on the horizon 2/ 
And absolutely no sign of the business investment boom we were supposed to get from that tax cut 3/
The real question these charts raise is, what was with the investment and growth slump in 2015-6. The answer is mainly oil prices, which plunged, leading to a drop in fracking investment 4/
And the partial recovery of oil probably accounts for whatever rise in business investment we see under Trump. Tax policy somewhat boosted consumption, but not much return on $2 trillion of debt ... 5/
As I was saying
