“China’s National People’s Congress is convening from March 5 to 11, giving leaders a chance to set the economic direction of the country and lay out their spending plans for the year ahead,” Bloomberg reports.
“Measures to boost domestic consumption will be more important than ever as the Chinese economy battles deflation and a prolonged property slump, and navigates US President Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on imports from China to 20%.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.