Friday, June 14, 2019

Over 600 US companies urge Trump to resolve trade dispute with China: letter
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/600-us-companies-urge-trump-to-resolve-trade-dispute-with-china-11626080

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Danny Lum
(1) Trump fail to understand the mechanics of Macroeconomics.

(2) Trump has make use of tariff (Economics) as weapon to achieve his other objectives eg. geopolitical influences, global leadership and tech leadership.

Both of the above - will have the effect of messing up US economy as well as the Global Economy because :-

(1) He mess up his fiscal policies (by ballooning US public debt) - through tax cut into a huge unsustainable public debt of US$23 trillion.
Note :- a large portion of the debt are external debt owe to foreign countries.
Serviicng this debt and repaying the capital loan - will lead to mass outflow of capital away from US economy.

(2) Trump mess up the trade policy and derail the global supply chain - that provide the most cost effective and optimal production input - that will fuel US domestic economy.

(3) As import price increase - due to high tariff impose by Trump, as well as disrupting the global supply chain that provide the least cost - it will cause the US production cost to increase.

(4) As a result, business cost go up, demand go down, consumption go down, job got loss due to lower business activities, busienss investment go down, tax cut that flood the US financial market will be neutralise, US economy go into recession - US Treasury coffer with high debt, high debt interest to service - will have no more bullets to prop up the US economy.
This is known as "demultiplier effect" to the Circular flow of Income in US economy --- through Trump's "Boom and Bust" economic cycle --- by artificially inflate the economy through unsustainable tax cut for immediate gratification to please his voters - but will lead to a recession later.

(5) There are already sign of economic slowdown coming out from the US economy :-

(a) Many US tech companies reported lower earnings and slower sales.

(b) Many small US agriculture selling their assets and farms - as they are unable to sell to China.

(c) US$1 trillion investment have been wiped out from the Global market.

(d) Many US businesses and CEOs are projecting US recession in 2020 - as they face difficulties in exporting their goods to other Countries and face high import cost due to tariff impose by Trump.

(e) Job growth has come down in US.
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Danny Lum
(1) Note :- US economy is only 250 million consumers --- it can't be the largest Economy in the World - if their businesses don't sell their products and services to the World (the World population is 6 billion consumers).

(2) Imagine if US cannot sell their boeing planes, weapons, cars, IT products, financial services, crops etc to the World --- US economy will shrink phenomenally.

(3) Now Trump offended all his trading partners and harm all external consumers relationship --- does anyone really think they will buy more US products and services?

(4) So Trump indeed has shoot himself on his own foot - and cause long term harm to US - when the World start to move away from the US economy.
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Danny Lum
The Impact of Tariffs and Trade Wars on the US Economy and the Dollar
https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/fundamental/daily_briefing/daily_pieces/top_fx_headlines/2018/03/02/The-Impact-of-Tariffs-and-Trade-Wars-on-the-US-Economy-and-the-Dollar.html?fbclid=IwAR2FbtkZMn_v4MIsm9UMvO6tqEXzPRzmVuTVEnVvu1IMb7gpj-2r-vJuabM

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Daniel Tan
Singapore's trade is 3 times our GDP and if this trade war goes full blown, we'll be hit very hard.

Problem here is Trump's ego. He wants a win and he wants to win handsomely. He would have been emboldened by his mini-standoff with Mexico which he won.

Another major issue is his trade representative, Robert Lighthizer. He was the deputy trade representative during President Reagan's tenure and he played a big part in the Plaza Accords which played a very major contribution to Japan's deflation which japan still hasn't recovered from.

We're hearing usa using the same language towards China as they used on the Japanese in the 80s.

Lighthizer is using the same 80s playbook but this time round, the opponent is vastly more formidable and much less amenable than the Japanese.

I'm afraid Trump's ego and Lighthizer's outdated thinking is going to hurt the world immensely at least until end 2020.
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Daniel Tan
Bingo. Yes both side will lose
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Rukia Kuchiki
Walmart and Co. are the m0f0s who heavily bought Chinese, of course they're now urging Trump....
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Simon Ho
I'm not quite sure that he won. He might have claim a victory quickly so that he can fake power projection for other negotiations. He cannot afford to open up too many fronts. They will become too many for him. Kudlow is also not reliable
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