Clinton’s tax war will hurt us all

Hillary Clinton's brand of economics will slow down growth in America, says Matthew Lynn – just when the world needs it most.

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Behind Hillary Clinton's smile is a new Ed Miliband

She doesn't, as far as we know, grope women she has hardly even been introduced to. She doesn't go around gratuitously insulting whole countries or, indeed, continents. She doesn't engage in Twitter storms in the middle of the night, or cosy up to Russian autocrats. Yet just because Hillary Clinton is clearly a better candidate than Donald Trump, simply by virtue of being a relatively normal human being, it doesn't mean that she is going to be a great American president.

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.