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![SamanthaLaDuc Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::705540042.png) Samantha LaDuc [@SamanthaLaDuc](/creator/twitter/SamanthaLaDuc) on x 64.9K followers
Created: 2025-07-09 13:06:43 UTC

I'm not sure that when Trump talks of balancing our trade deficit through tariffs he is trying to drive the value of the US dollar lower in an attempt to reduce risk ahead of an economic downturn, especially if interest rates rise; but either way, as Geoffrey and I have discussed and posted for many months, Trump's plan of devaluing the dollar is a feature, not a bug, of his plain to maintain US exceptionalism through isolationism.

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