Trump's voodoo economics harmful to health of global economy

Tokyo

DONALD Trump's contribution to the global economy appears somewhat like that of a witch doctor who bursts into a hospital ward, rattling bones and offering voodoo incantations for a patient who is already on the mend - his actions risk killing rather than curing the patient.

The "patient" was recovering before Dr Trump began planning his primitive surgery to amputate trade limbs and purge currency markets of supposed poisons, although the recovery was apparent only to specialists who monitor closely the global body economic.

A long-awaited upturn in world trade, which in turn suggested higher growth in the global economy, was detected by e…