With the US Republican primaries effectively over as a contest in less than two weeks, TV viewers, political pundits and anyone with an interest in the fate of the global economy can be forgiven for focusing instead on the implications of a once unthinkable yet increasingly likely scenario: the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
Such a return may yet be stymied by a fightback by Joe Biden (who trails Trump in several key battleground states), a series of legal battles that include four criminal indictments, or the comeback to end all comebacks from his Republican primary opponent Nikki Haley.
