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Anders Åslund

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Economist & author. Russia, Ukraine & Eastern Europe. Read my latest book: "Russia's Crony Capitalism" amzn.to/2WgLENO

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Today, the US has 1.1 million foreign students, offering the country vast sums of money & rich intelligence. Soon, Trump will minimize their number & intelligence will go elsewhere. Nobody can recommend any foreigner to go to the US to study any longer. What a devastation!

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This Trump statement should disqualify him from ever be taken seriously: “I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.” Trump has told us he is a complete idiot. We had better believe him.

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As usual, Ed Luce gets its right: "America’s rising ‘moron premium’" The cost of having an almighty idiot as president is enormous & rising. The US treasury market can still stop his madness, but only episodically. I am pessimistic: US default is possible. ft.com/content/d9c762…

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This Trump statement is truly outrageous. Trump appears to say that he helps Putin in his mass killing of civilians in Ukraine. The republicans in Congress who claim to support Ukraine had better ask him to clarify this statement.

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It is astounding that the US with the most educated & talented people in the world has elected a verified moron as president who is running the eminent Biden economy aground for no other reasons than his own ignorance & uncontrolled anger. ft.com/content/d9c762…

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Why does anybody televize these absurdities as news? Why not state instead that Trump's press secretary provided new evidence that Trump is mentally ill and move on to the next topic of actual news.

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Sad to see that Trump has turned the US into a village fool in international politics. Understanding nothing & causing great damage.

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"US goods imports plunged by nearly a fifth in April in the biggest fall on record as President Donald Trump’s tariffs prompted companies to slam the brakes on shipments to the world’s biggest economy." ft.com/content/e51840…

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Gillian Tett: Trump's tax bill would enable the US Treasury to impose penalties on “applicable persons” from “discriminatory foreign countries” by increasing US federal income tax and withholding rates by up to 20 percentage points on their US investments. ft.com/content/96e9d5…

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"Peter Kažimír, governor of the National Bank of Slovakia and a member of the European Central Bank’s governing council, was convicted of bribery on Thursday and fined €200,000...Kažimír, an old political ally of Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico." ft.com/content/f5104d…

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Can any big company invest in the US when Trump persistently destabilizes their conditions with wild decisions about trade & immigration? Trump is making it nearly impossible to invest in the US. If the republicans in Congress had any sense of responsibility they would stop him.

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Considering all Trump’s complaints about other countries’ alleged non-tariff barriers, which are usually just Trump’s ignorance, other countries should raise Trump as the main impediment to trade in the world.

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JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon said on Friday that he had cautioned regulators: “You are going to see a crack in the bond market.” “I’m telling you this is going to happen. And you are going to panic. I’m not going to panic. We’ll be fine.” ft.com/content/8c3628…