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by tomato2juice 2203 days ago
The article focuses on "savings", but much of the impactful forces were already in play. This article was discussed previously and had much more valuable insight: https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/

Nit pick:

> Look no further than the Trump administration. Protectionist trade policies, withdrawal from the architectural pillars of globalization such as the Paris Agreement on Climate, Trans-Pacific Partnership, World Health Organization and traditional Atlantic alliances

TPP was the worst example to throw in there. It was a horrible proposal, that both parties hated, and both presidential candidates said they would withdraw from. Either the author was trying to just make it look worse, or had zero clue about the mulit-year TPP debate.