What’s happening: President Donald Trump’s tariffs have roiled global stock markets in the past couple weeks — but they’ve also had another effect: weakening the value of the United States dollar (USD). Some have put forward the idea that Trump sought to do this on purpose, as it could help to reset an economic playing field tilted toward China.

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Doug Ebbecke1 year ago

Having worked in manufacturing in the 2000’s and seeing what US companies were doing it was depressing. What I was reading was engineers that worked for companies here were laid off and had to go to China to get a job if they wanted to stay in their chosen field. Small manufacturing tool and die companies that I knew closed as it was cheaper to buy throw away products from China and replace them with new than to buy better tools here and maintain them. Trump is fully aware and on the right path!

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Stephen Winsor1 year ago

I say give it a shot. What we have been doing thus far is not working.

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Jim Harmon1 year ago

It is amazing how much Chinese products being sold in our Country. What used to be cheap Japanese trinkets has been surpassed by Chinese objects. TEMU shows up on the internet for everything you might want to buy, and they data-mine on TIK-TOK. It's hard to imagine the impact is products were suddenly to expensive to buy.

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Monty Mickle1 year ago

Brilliant! A strong US dollar during the Reagan administration precipitated the crash of US manufacturing and farm economies. China has been cheating for decades and hold a lot of US dollars.

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