I've been amazed by the unhinged economic optimism shown immediately after the election.
Things is, it's got nothing to do with anything remotely close to trade. It's an ideologically-driven stupidity of cosmic levels which definitively places the US next to Russia and the like.
Reposted from Simon Nixon
The End of the Economic World as We Knew It - Trump just blew up what was left of the world trading system. Other countries may, and indeed should, try to preserve what they can as a global public good, but the scale of the dispruption is so great that the more likely outcome is global chaos

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