“As paradoxical as it may sound, the ongoing economic slowdown of the United States is not the painful yet necessary short-term side effect of Trump’s tariffs, but rather its goal. Collateral damage is the intended outcome (…) It is much less about reshoring manufacturing than feeding the credit addiction of financial capital (…) Real demand must be methodically suppressed, for if even a fraction of the ocean of credit that has been pumped into the financial sphere were allowed to ‘come down to earth’, society would be hit by wave after wave of hyperinflation.” Fabio Vighi, “Trumps tariffs: Everything you wanted to know about them, but were afraid to ask the bond market”, The Philosophical Salon, 26.5.2025

Bemerkenswert einsichtig, wann man davon absieht, dass

• Prof. Vighi auch “energieblind” ist,
• die Arbeitswerttheorie des alten Karl Marx ebensowenig stimmt wie die Wertschöpfungslehren der (anderen) klassischen Ökonomen und
• der heutige finanzialisierte Staatskapitalismus, über den Vighi schreibt, ziemlich anders ist als der private Industriekapitalismus, über den Marx schrieb.