My second piece of evidence to suggest the current chaos is temporary is that before being part of the administration, Miran said that the Dollar policies that he proposed would likely be.
“Miran: pursued later in an Administration after tariffs had produced the sufficient negotiating leverage”
So both Miran and Bessent are essentially telling us that the current Tariff chaos is just about creating leverage that can be used when implementing the rest of the plan.
Ok, just a few minutes ago trump said: Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even."
I don't see any way he wants to actually use the leverage he "created"
Yesterday peter navarro also said, i'm copying a tweet:
Peter Navarro responds to Vietnam’s offer to remove all tariffs: “This is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency based on a trade deficit that’s gotten out of control because of cheating,” Trump’s trade adviser says on Fox News. “Don’t say you want to lower the tariffs and be done with it. It’s the non-tariff cheating. Stop manipulating your currencies. Stop dumping stuff in.” [1]
Pascal Lammy (former WTO head and former EU commissioner) described Trump bluntly but perhaps not far from the truth in response to the new tariffs:
"“I think Mr Trump learned to do business in the New York mafia-influenced real estate market and that his tactics are based on extortion – you hit and keep hitting for as long as you do not get a good price for stopping."
My second piece of evidence to suggest the current chaos is temporary is that before being part of the administration, Miran said that the Dollar policies that he proposed would likely be.
“Miran: pursued later in an Administration after tariffs had produced the sufficient negotiating leverage”
So both Miran and Bessent are essentially telling us that the current Tariff chaos is just about creating leverage that can be used when implementing the rest of the plan.
Ok, just a few minutes ago trump said: Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even."
I don't see any way he wants to actually use the leverage he "created"
Yesterday peter navarro also said, i'm copying a tweet: Peter Navarro responds to Vietnam’s offer to remove all tariffs: “This is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency based on a trade deficit that’s gotten out of control because of cheating,” Trump’s trade adviser says on Fox News. “Don’t say you want to lower the tariffs and be done with it. It’s the non-tariff cheating. Stop manipulating your currencies. Stop dumping stuff in.” [1]
[1] https://x.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1908900999449763931