Donald Trump je povedal in napovedal marsikaj. In potem povsem povozil stare napovedi z novimi. Preveč za naštevanje, zato se je treba lotiti samo najnovejših, in še to samo tistih, ki se zdijo, da bodo imele resne implikacije. Prva izmed njih je napoved univerzalnih carin proti celemu svetu v začetku aprila, nato njihova hibernacija za 90 dni in napoved da bo roku 90 dni z 90 državami dosegel nove trgovinske sporazume. Nato se je hvalil, da ga voditelji držav kličejo za začetek pogajanj. 90 dni je minilo in Trumpa nihče ni poklical. No, skoraj nihče. Z dvema državama (V. Britanija in Vietnam) je bil dosežen nekakšen sporazum. V resnici na ljubo skice sporazumov. Ki pa sta tako slabi, da bi bilo bolje, če ju ne bi bilo.
Toda Trumpa to ne moti. Hvali se, da je zelo uspešen pri sklepanju trgovinskih sporazumov, kar naj bi se po njegvem izražalo v rekordnem gibanju tečajev na ameriških borzah – za razliko od poloma v začetku aprila. No, kot pravi John Cassidy v New Yorkerju, je pravi razlog za rekordne tečaje povsem drugačen – borzni špekulanti namreč stavijo na to, da Trump itak zgolj blefira in da bo spet izvedel svoj TACO —Trump always chickens out. In Trump je državam dal nov ultimat glede datuma, do katerega morajo urediti trgovinske zadeve z ZDA. To je do 1. avgusta. Pri čemer ta datum “naj ne bi bil 100-odstoten”. TACO.
The White House’s tariffs have been well received, Donald Trump told Kristen Welker, of NBC News, last week, adding that the stock market had just hit a new high. Trump was right about the market, but he didn’t mention why investors were bidding up the S. & P. 500 and Nasdaq to unprecedented levels despite his threats, yet again, to impose punitive tariffs of up to fifty per cent on goods imported from all over the world: they don’t believe he’ll ever go through with it. Or, as the acronym that has become an article of faith on Wall Street goes, “TACO”—Trump always chickens out.
After Trump first announced his global tariffs with great fanfare, in the Rose Garden, on April 2nd, the value of stocks, bonds, and the U.S. dollar plummeted. Within a week, he announced a three-month pause on his most punitive levies, which ranged up to fifty per cent. Trump’s adviser Peter Navarro said the Administration would use the ninety-day extension to make ninety new trade deals. When the period came to an end last week, just two deals had been reached—with the U.K. and Vietnam—and those were only rough outlines. Rather than let the tariffs kick in, Trump postponed them again, this time to August 1st. He also told reporters that this new deadline may be “not one-hundred-per-cent firm.” TACO, TACO, TACO. That, at least, is Wall Street’s take.
Vir: John Cassidy, New Yorker
Predvsem pa je pomembno, da Trumpove grožnje s carinami več nikogar ne ganejo. Niti držav izvoznic. Zato stavijo na TACO:

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