Daniel Engelke

3 weeks ago | diem25.org | Yanis Varoufakis |Daniel Engelke

“My philosophy, Mr President, is that all foreigners are out to screw us and it’s our job to screw them first.” With these words, the United States Treasury Secretary convinced the president to deliver a colossal shock to the global economy. In the words of one of the president’s men, the objective was to trigger “a controlled disintegration of the world economy”. No, those words were not spoken by members of president Donald Trump’s team in advance of their “Liberation Day” tariff splurge.