“We require a commitment from those countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.” As readers can hopefully gather, President-elect Donald Trump posted the latter on Truth Social.
Readers also hopefully recognize that Trump governs much better than he talks, or that a separation of powers results in Trump governing much better than he talks. If the previous sentence weren’t true, then always forward-looking U.S. (and global) stock markets would have already corrected in a way that would that would make 1929, 1987 and 2008 seem tame by comparison.
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