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triron

(22,029 posts) Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:01 PM Jan 2018

Politico: Trump team (Mnuchin) unleashes verbal assault on dollar.

https://www.politico.eu/article/mnuchin-trump-dollar-verbal-assault-breaking-tradition-team-unleashes/

huh?? Again Russian playbook?

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Politico: Trump team (Mnuchin) unleashes verbal assault on dollar. (Original Post) triron Jan 2018 OP

Conflict, confusion, disruption, disaster, uncertainty, vengence....... pangaia Jan 2018 #1

pangaia

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1. Conflict, confusion, disruption, disaster, uncertainty, vengence.......

Reply to triron (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 05:39 PM

Jan 2018

“It’s remarkable, really, this kind of bomb-throwing from Mnuchin on the dollar the same week they slap on tariffs,” said Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics, referring to action this week by the Trump White House to impose tariffs on some imported solar panels and washing machines. “The problem with this is it just invites retaliation. This is not a friendly action.”

Just more of the war plan...

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