I think it's going very well. We have an operation, like when a patient gets operated on, and it's a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is,
Taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years. But it is not going to happen anymore.”
The simultaneous decline in both stocks and the US dollar speaks volumes about investor confidence in Trump's trade policy,
The president made it clear yesterday this is not a negotiation,
Markets, unsurprisingly, have reacted badly,
This would suggest the Federal Reserve will need to put additional rate cuts on the table to look to prevent recession being triggered, but should it face inflation rising too, it is in somewhat of a bind,
A recession over the next 12 months looks more likely than it looked at the start of the year, but we still think the economy will most likely expand in 2025, and 2026 in particular, because it looks likely that the administration will use tax revenues from tariffs to partially fund broader tax cuts that will come into effect next year,
Higher tariffs will likely cause 3% to 5% more inflation over the next year and a half than the U.S. would have had without them,
We would expect tariffs to be reduced from the levels announced by the President,
I don't think there's any chance,
In a weakening economy in general, consumers are going to be very sensitive to price changes,
The markets are going to boom," and "the country is going to boom,
I know we're hearing from countries that are kind of complaining about what's happening, but I have a chart,
I think the impact on consumers is going to be very, very high,
What would the message be of having big European players that invest billions in the American economy at the same time they are hitting us?”
China firmly opposes this and will take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests,
I think it's going very well,