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"What saved capitalism (at least for a little while) after the Crash of 2008? Besides China (yes, China saved the capitalist world’s bacon by boosting magnificently its aggregate investment to take up the massive slack developing in the North Atlantic), the answer is: The Fed’s swap lines (i.e., the fact that, without second thought, the Fed lent the central banks of Europe and Japan something like $600 billion).

Something similar happened in 2020, as the pandemic spread panic and chaos through the West’s financial circuits (on that occasion, the Fed’s swap lines funnelled around $450 billion to a world dependent on the mighty dollar).

In this context, hotheads who think that Europe and Japan can afford to play tough with Washington seem unable to fathom the extent of their dependency. For the time being, Trump does not control the Fed. Or so it seems. But is it not possible that the Fed will not want to antagonise him? Is it, therefore, not possible that the Fed may not be as quick to ‘lubricate’ its swap lines at the drop of a hat (as it did in 2008 and 2020) when they are most needed?"

yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/09/

Yanis Varoufakis · Forget shares, bonds and tariffs. Here is what you should really worry about - Yanis VaroufakisWhile waiting for the EU’s response to the Trump Shock (don’t hold your breath for evidence of intelligent life from Brussels…), those of you who really want to worry about something big, turn your attentions to perhaps the largest threat for the status quo – greater than tariffs, equities, bond prices etc. What is that? […]
#USA#Trump#FED

US-Zollpolitik: ++ Laut Trump betteln viele Länder um Zoll-Deal ++

Laut US-Präsident Trump wollen viele betroffene Länder unbedingt einen Zoll-Deal aushandeln: "Sie küssen mir der Arsch", sagte er. Die Spirale aus Zöllen und Gegenzöllen dreht sich laut Bundesfinanzminister Kukies schneller als erwartet.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb

tagesschau.de · US-Zollpolitik: ++ Laut Trump betteln viele Länder um Zoll-Deal ++By tagesschau.de

So what? #Trump plant auf Basis des #Vance/Thiel-Plans die totale #Disruption der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen. Diese implizite Schwächung der eigenen US-Wirtschaft zielt in Kombination mit #DrillBabyDrill auf billigen Dollar ohne Inflation? Klappt das?
Was klappt, ist, dass sich sämtliche anderen Akteure neu ausrichten und verbünden. Also im Zweifel geht die USA einfach krachen. Aber dann haben die ja noch die #nukes...

Vi dico che questi paesi ci stanno chiamando per baciarmi il culo". Si è espresso così #Trump durante la cena del National Republican Congressional Committee a Washington parlando dei Paesi colpiti dai dazi che vogliono trattare per ridurre le tariffe. Rivolgendosi alla platea dei repubblicani per rivendicare la sua linea dura, il presidente americano ha assicurano che i tanti Paesi colpiti dalle tariffe "muoiono dalla voglia" di fare un accordo.

No comment.🤦‍♂️

ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/202

Agenzia ANSA · Trump: 'Tutti mi chiamano per baciarmi il culo'. Pechino: 'Pronti alla guerra dei dazi' - Notizie - Ansa.itIn vigore i 'dazi reciproci' Usa su 60 Paesi, Cina al 104%. Il presidente americano ai repubblicani: 'So quello che sto facendo. Non vogliamo necessariamente fare accordi sui dazi' (ANSA)

According to an internal document seen by POLITICO, the Commission is considering slapping tariffs of up to 25 percent on a broad range of exports from the U.S. worth around €22.1 billion based on the EU’s 2024 imports.

The list features run-of-the-mill agricultural and industrial commodities such as soybeans, meat, tobacco, iron, steel and aluminum — to hit the American sectors that rely most on transatlantic exports.

#trump #trade #tradewar #eu #europe #tariffs

politico.eu/article/eu-tariffs

POLITICO · EU slaps tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream to target Trump’s red statesBy Giovanna Coi

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say. .#Trump..#GOP..#whitenationalism #deportations propublica.org/article/homelan

ProPublica“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
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