America the Unstable

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America under Donald Trump is an emerging market. That’s my takeaway from the last few days of tariff chaos and its fallout. 

When I first raised this idea last October, I pointed out that emerging markets are often characterised by uncertain economics, corrupt politics, institutions that are too weak to enforce democratic norms, violence and social polarisation. The…