If the US$ drop 30%, the deficit magically dropped 30% when calculated in something else....
This only works if you have superior manufacturing infra. To some extent the FAANGs export tech. But if FAANG is a tiny thing compared to say Toyota.
Speaking of FAANG - EU has been considering proper taxes on the digital economy for some time already[0]. I guess this will speed up the works on this.
[0]https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-taxation...
/s/digital dollar/bitcoin or trump coins or doge coins
As for other polices that "punish USD" "reward MagicCoins" ... well the market would hopefully see both currencies as crap and use Euros or Yuan. Or maybe new currency baskets will emerge to decentralise power.
So basically in the US, Nutella will become only a luxury food!
My point about creating a new currency is that I wouldn't be surprised if they would allow certain transactions to bypass some regulations.
You know the US already pulled a trick on the dollar about 50 years ago, right?
It's very much a case of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" fix an artificially high US$ and you can force everyone to trade in it for oil, but as a side effect you screw your exporters
Many of these countries already have tariffs on U.S. goods. The EU has a 25% tariff on US agricultural, chemical, and some manufactured products.
- each country will impose equivalent taxes on the import of US goods - this is not only expected, but the norm under international trade law. - with the rest of the world, still having free trade agreements between them, will start trading around the US, the US won't be able to compete
The value of the US$ will likely drop by the value of the tariffs. If everyone starts trading around the US we'll probably lose the US$ as a standard currency to trade in, maybe switching to yuan or euros, the US$ is buoyed by it being the currency everyone uses, that's going to drive it even lower.