Despite the Trump mayhem the dollar has been surprisingly resilient
Adam Tooze 28 June 2026 https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-1146-the-dollars-resilience This 10% decline looks like a modest currency realignment rather than the onset of a sharper decline that took place in the 1980’s (after the Plaza Accord to deliberately weaken the dollar), or the decline in the early 2000’s after the launch of the Euro. Source: Cembalest in JPM https://assets.jpmprivatebank.com/content/dam/jpm-pb-aem/global/en/documents/eotm/semiquincententacles.pdf A ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’; like Plaza Accord, followed by Louvre Accord https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-mar-lago-accord-like-plaza-accord.html Weakening the dollar is a good idea https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/10/weakening-dollar-is-good-idea.html Konflikter om hur man ska justera externa obalanser återkommit ungefär vartannat decennium sedan 1980-talet. Varför är hanteringen av globala obalanser i betalningsbalansen både så svår och så viktig? Det korta svaret är att de ligger i...