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BUSINESS & AG LIFE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019 THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD — 3B Trump claims credit for economy, jobs in New York speech By Josh Boak and Zeke Miller The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a slowing economy, President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the United States was enjoying a “boom the likes of which we have never seen before!” Trump told the Economic Club of New York that “we have delivered on our promises — and exceeded our expectations by a very wide margin.” His remarks were delivered to an audience of powerbrokers and affl uent business leaders, but his political future may depend on whether voters in the Midwest and Sunbelt believe that he has fought for their own fi nancial well-being. The president faces reelection next year in a relatively healthy economy, yet student debt, high medical costs and rising inequality have given Democrats seeking the presidency inroads to say that only a privileged few have genuinely benefi ted from the Trump era. “Our democracy has been hi- jacked by the rich and the power- ful. They make it work for them- selves, and they leave everyone else behind,” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a major Democratic Party fundraiser and dinner in Iowa earlier this month. Despite his congratulatory rheto- ric, Trump has not fulfi lled many of his grandiose promises for the economy. Growth in the most recent quar- ter slowed to an annualized 1.9% — a far cry from the gains of “4%, 5% and even 6%” that Trump said his 2017 tax cuts would make pos- sible. The president has not been able to boost the U.S. steel industry with tariffs, while coal has been supplanted as an energy source by natural gas. Unemployment is near a fi ve- decade low of 3.6%, a point of pride for Trump. The job gains defi ed the forecasts of many government economists who anticipated less hiring due to an aging population. Yet the falling jobless rate is also a continuation of a trend that started during Barack Obama’s presidency as the economy has been expand- ing for more than a decade, the longest period of growth in U.S. history. “The economy was growing before he took offi ce,” Andy Green, managing director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. “It was creating jobs before he took offi ce. It’s been creating fewer jobs since he took offi ce. The stock mar- ket has gone gangbusters. What he Seth Wenig/The Associated Press President Donald Trump declared told the Economic Club of New York Tuesday that “we have delivered on our promises — and exceeded our expectations by a very wide margin.” has done is deliver for the corporate interests that put him in offi ce.” The president took a combative tone at times, dubbing China a cheater on trade even as he seeks an initial settlement to calm an 18-month trade war that has hurt U.S. manufacturing output as tracked by the Federal Reserve and industry groups. The administration has launched tariffs and threated additional import taxes, disrupting supply chains even as the overall U.S. trade defi cit has increased 15% during the Trump administration. “I will not say the word ‘cheated,’ but nobody has cheated better than China,” said Trump. Trump also attacked the Federal Reserve for not slashing a bench- mark interest rate to a near-zero, a level that historically would have signaled an economy in crisis. But the president sees European na- tions with negative interest rates on their government debt and views that as free money that puts the United States at a competitive disadvantage. “Give me some of that money,” he said. “I want some of that money.” The president also went after Democrats who have favored plans to address inequality and climate change, suggesting that that the economy would be crushed if he lost re-election in 2020. “The people we’re running against are crazy,” Trump said. “They’re crazy.” He addressed the club in the same midtown Manhattan ball- room where he celebrated his elec- tion to the White House in 2016. When the applause was slow in coming after Trump declared he had delivered on his promises, the president jokingly said, “Thank you. I was waiting for that. 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