What evidence is there that his actions are unstable?

Great column! I agree with all of your points!

1. How well did that work in the Arab Spring? It's less effective in the age of social media.d 2. Hungry, angry people will lash out at whomever they can.

In a trade war of the type Gary is talking about, the Chinese economy would be devastated. Unlike in the U.S., most Chinese dont have any allegiance/belief in their government or their system of government. So an economic collapse would probably quickly lead to revolution and execution of the leadership a la Arab Spring.

China and the U.S. could ultimately really badly hurt each other., although the Chinese leaders have a lot more to lose i.e. their lives. But why would that happen when a mutually acceptable deal can be reached pretty easily? I stand by my belief that a deal will be reached by August or September. Merkel and Trudeau, on the other hand, cant do much to hurt the U.S. but we can badly hurt them.

I understand your points but they have some fallacies. 1. Judging by employment and consumer confidence data, many consumers aren't so strapped2. I haven't seen data saying that this will affect prices so much. Five to ten percent price increases in canned goods, houses and cars aren't going to break many consumers if any. A ten percent decrease in gas prices would probably more than compensate for those increases. 3. The industries that will probably be hit by far he hardest are the ones living high off the hog since nafta..computers and Healthcare devices. So instead of making 200k an apple engineer will have to get by with 150. 4. Russia didn't need or want to be invaded. The eu, Canada, and China all need our markets at least twenty times more than we need theirs. 5. The tariffs will help many sectors of the u.s. economy.

When Trump reaches trade deals, anyone who sold will regret doing so.

Great article! It 's also a leader in several high growth sector..s.IT security, Internet of Things and, driverless cars.

I wonder why the inflation pickup isn't causing gold prices to rise.

Let's see if it gets "destroyed" or if this prediction ends up being as accurate as all of the other wild predictions of the Trump haters. As in, have we had nuclear war? has the president brought back Jim Crow laws? Has the stock market collapsed? Has he done everything Putin wants?