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What this makes clear is that the US tariff strategy is not just the lashing out of a capricious Trump. There is serious thinking behind it with the aim of rebuilding US manufacturing in the medium term. Whether it will work is another matter. Hope these are useful (8/8)

Tett’s piece links to this essay by Stephen Miran who is Trump’s Chair of Economic Advisors: www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG....

Finally, Gillian Tett wrote recently in the @financialtimes.com about plans to potentially devalue the US dolar to increase US competitiveness (www.ft.com/content/fba8... paywalled). (7/8)

This podcast gives a lot more background on NRx and its relationship to climate denial, amongst other things.

theinternationalriskpodcast.com/the-rise-of-...

It seems unlikely that Trump is particularly interested in NRx philosophy himself, but a lot of people around him are. (6/8)

NRx thinking is popular amongst Silicon Valley tech-bros such as Peter Thiel and also influential on JD Vance. Attacks on government departments, universities, DEI and the media make much more sense in the context of a political project driven by NRx ideology (5/8).