Will anybody buy a ‘Mar-a-Lago accord’?

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Military and economic pressure will stimulate the US economy in the future, demands a new document: "The Mar-a-Lago Accord" outlines the end of the globalised market. Donald Trump takes the paper literally.

Will anybody buy a ‘Mar-a-Lago accord’?

The US president wants both to protect domestic manufacturing and hold the dollar as the reserve currency

The Mar-a-Lago Accord - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Sculpture installed at the Guggenheim Museum in 2016Artist, Maurizio Cattelan stu_spivack – DSC_0476 stu_spivack – DSC_0476CC BY-SA 2.0 Adam Tooze has a very good article today on the Mar-a-Lago Accord. What is the Mar-a-Lago accord, you may ask. Here’s how Torsten Slock characterizes it, from Tooze’s article. According to Gillian Tett in an interview with Ezra Klein, it’s not really a thing, isn’t written down. But an enterprising young economi…

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