Trump se je ustrašil svojih carin, ko so se borzni trgi sesuli. Umaknil je carine in razglasil zmago, hkrati pa še povečal carinski fokus na Kitajsko. Toda tam ga čaka še večja težava v obliki rasti donosov oziroma obrestne mere na ameriške obveznice, če se Kitajska maščuje prek masovnih odprodaj ameriških državnih obveznic. Hkrati je sprožil splošni beg iz ameriškega dolarja. Veliki investitorji in države se bodo želeli znebiti premoženja v nestabilnem dolarju, podvrženemu eratičnim sentimentom “zelo stabilnega genija”.
It is indeed “one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of Trump’s presidency” in the sheer level of gaslighting at play: he’s trying to make one of the biggest and clearest humiliations in US history look like a win.
But there’s no amount of lipstick that can disguise this pig. What happened is remarkably similar to the 2022 Liz Truss fiasco in the UK: Trump came out with a remarkably foolish and terribly executed policy that created a market panic—including in the bonds market—and he had to walk it back.
But unlike the British system that—for better or worse—can get rid of woefully incompetent Prime Ministers (that is, more incompetent than the average), the U.S. is stuck with Trump.
And unlike Liz Truss, Trump remains insulated by a circle of sycophants like Lutnick who reframe humiliating capitulations as ‘extraordinary’ triumphs, and a voter base that interprets even his most flagrant policy failures as masterful 4D chess moves.
Fact is, even after this retreat, the U.S. is in a far worse position than it used to be.


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