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The Fire Hose of Chaos: Finance

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The Fire Hose of Chaos: Finance

 

by Peter Zeihan on May 6, 2025

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The US has known that a capital crunch was inbound for decades now. With the Baby Boomers retiring and Trump’s trade policies hitting at the same time, these financial woes might sting a bit more than we thought.

The retirement of the Boomers was always going to cause a capital supply crunch; it’s just what happens when people retire and begin shifting their investments to safer things. So, the cost of capital was already on the rise. Now mix in Trump’s rapid-fire tariffs and aggressive foreign policies…and you magically begin losing capital inflows into the US, exacerbating the US capital problem.

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