Trump's latest threat to the US Fed is a stunner: can monetary and trade policy be taken so lightly?
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The US President’s call last week for a Fed rate cut and his tirade against trade deficits made the world sit up alright, but aghast at his latest ‘or else.’ An economy cannot be run by all-caps command—or as a business for that matter.