# Professor Edward Altman comments on President Trump's economic agenda

1 Faculty News April 6, 2017 ![CNBC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027305.jpg?itok=Ipx0jiaQ)>

Excerpt from [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06/trumps-spending-agenda-could-be-a-recipe-for-disaster-says-nyu-business-professor.html) -- "'We have to be careful, very much, of overheating the economy very quickly with infrastructure financing and lower taxes,' [Altman](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/edward-altman) told CNBC Thursday. 'That, in many cases, could be a recipe for disaster if, in fact, the deficit financing and the amount of debt that has to be raised to finance it is excessive.'"

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