Handelskriget; Klas Eklund förstår delvis hur de resonerar; Miran, Martin Wolf, Triffin, Smaghi
– Om man hotar med tullar kan dels ett antal europeiska och andra företag välja att producera mer i USA för att slippa tullar, som då ger inkomster till statskassan
I Mirans verktygslåda finns också ränteregleringar där man ska tvinga omvärlden att i praktiken skriva av en del av den amerikanska statsskulden, enligt Klas Eklund.
SvT 2 april 2025
If one is to understand this more sophisticated approach, one should read Miran’s “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System”, published in November 2024.
Underpinning Miran’s argument is a proposition made by the Belgian economist Robert Triffin in the early 1960s.
Triffin argued that the growing demand for dollars as a reserve asset could only be supplied by persistent US current account deficits.
This in turn meant that the dollar was persistently overvalued relative to the requirements of equilibrium in the balance of payments.
Martin Wolf Financial Times 18 March 2025
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/will-anybody-buy-mar-lago-accord.html
The Triffin dilemma revisited
Speech by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Conference on the International Monetary System: sustainability and reform proposals, marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Triffin (1911-1993), at the Triffin International Foundation, Brussels, 3 October 2011.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2011/html/sp111003.en.html
Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 2 april 2025
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/rolfs-lanktips-2-april-2025.html
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