Trump's in-the-know plan to demolish the US economy

Trump may be blowing the economy up on purpose

Working-class Americans should view a purposefully engineered recession as blatant aggression by the ownership class.

Trump's in-the-know plan to demolish the US economy

The press daily reports ever louder shrieks of concern that Trump’s actions – tariffs, deportations, chainsaw destruction of federal agencies by people barely out of their teens – risk causing a worldwide economic crash. The naïve shriekers Bill Ackman, Larry Fink, Larry Summers and countless others don’t yet realize that there’s no risk: it’s the […] The post Trump’s in-the-know plan to demolish the US economy appeared first on Asia Times.

Trump will destroy a world economy that has us at the apex and only getting stronger

It’s dangerous to disrupt willy-nilly a system that has ourselves at the apex, and getting stronger rather than weaker.

Whose interests does the Trump administration's seemingly erratic and self-destructive economic policy actually pursue? Margit Mayer, emeritus professor of political science at the John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, talks about Silicon Valley's move to the side of the Republicans and burgeoning resistance in the USA in an interview. Trump's second term has so far been even more chaotic than his first. And…