Handelsunderskott är en noja hos Donald Trump

Det skriver den vanligtvis kloke och förståndige Mattias Svensson i  SvD den 3 april 2025 under rubriken Nu våras det för vansinnet

https://www.svd.se/a/QM0Ql4/trumps-tullar-visar-att-det-varas-for-vansinnet

Mattias vet nog egentligen att det amerikanska handelsunderskottet är ett av världsekonomins stora, långvariga och mycket debatterade problem.

Här annars några lästips för honom och alla andra.

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

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://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/handelskriget-klas-eklund-forstar.html

Global imbalances more dangerous than trade war

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/global-imbalances-more-dangerous-than.html


Trump’s game plan for devaluing the mighty dollar

Rewind to the mid-1980s, when Ronald Reagan was the US president, and America was cursed by a similarly large trade deficit, 

and thanks to the administration’s expansionary fiscal policies, a relatively strong currency buoyed by high interest rates.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/trumps-game-plan-for-devaluing-mighty.html


Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 3 april 2025

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/rolfs-lanktips-3-april-2025.html






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