

Though Polish voters in October ousted their right-wing populist government, recent elections in Slovakia and the Netherlands show that populism remains as malign and potent a political force as ever in Europe. But these outcomes also hold important lessons for the United States, where the specter of Donald Trump’s return to the White House haunts the runup to the 2024 presidential election.
纽黑文—我应该听艾伦·格林斯潘(Alan Greenspan)的——至少在货币预测方面是这样。这位美联储前主席曾经告诉我,这是一场傻瓜游戏,正确预测货币的几率比掷硬币的下注还要糟糕。两年前,我无视大师的建议,孤注一掷,预测美元将暴跌 35%。
在 2020 年下半年大幅下跌 9% 之后,广义美元指数(由国际清算银行计算的实际有效汇率)反其道而行之,从 2021 年 1 月到 2022 年 5 月飙升了 12.3%。这使美元比 2020 年 5 月的水平高出 2.3%,这时我做出这个看上去愚蠢无比的决定。我怎么弄错了?
三个因素塑造了我的想法:美国的经常账户赤字、美联储政策,以及 TINA(“别无选择”)。我认为,外部赤字正走向大麻烦,二消极的美联储对解决这个问题几乎无能为力——迫使大部分经常账户调整集中在货币贬值而不是利率上升上。我还抨击了 挺美元的TINA论,试图为欧元和人民币升值提供理由。
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