Attention Economy


Sunday, February 16, 2025

Outside-the-Box Thinking or Just Batshit Crazy?

Trump Wants to Bring Down Treasury Yields. Here’s What to Know.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/10-year-treasury-yields-bonds-trump-explained-d988bd4e
The effort to lower borrowing costs faces obstacles, including Trump’s own tax policies.  

The real reason Trump is waging a global trade war
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/16/real-reason-trump-is-waging-a-global-trade-war/
Underlying the US president’s bombardment of tariff threats is an uncomfortable truth: America needs cash. 

Explaining the Sanewashing of Donald Trump
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/explaining-the-sanewashing-of-donald
 
Trump’s global policy ideas have some wondering how the president went from America First to America Everywhere
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trumps-global-policy-ideas-have-some-wondering-how-the-president-went-from-america-first-to-america-everywhere