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Panican: name. The person or party that panic, exaggerates the reaction of events in a weak and stupid way. Insulted.

This barely aged nebulic age is a month. There is a large paradox, within a week of the invention, its author (the American President) became a member of the Baliki Party. It took only 24 hours of chaos in the bond market for “liberation day” to make room for “ComEupance”, with a 90 -day tariff stopped.

However, the question posed by the US President is still relevant as it is at the time. Was the reaction of financial markets, politicians and the media to excessive tariff advertisements? Have the catastrophic around the clock throughout the week in the financial markets and the media, and the political class that routinely declares the end of the world?

The effect of definitions, especially the fear of an unknown escalation in it, is significantly real. If the arms race controls, the liberation day can lead to a decade or more hibernation in global trade and growth. The arc of the history of trade, with disturbing regularity, bent towards darkness.

The trauma of the customs tariffs emanating from the United States occurred in a routine semi-cornea cycle in the past 250 years: 1789, 1828, 1890, 1930, 1971. Each of them left the permitted total economy-in a wonderful shock (shock. “Both are mentioned as wonderful for wrong reasons.

After half a century, with a global trade now larger and more intertwined, it was expected that the scars resulting from the shock of a 2025 tariff would be deeper. Last month, the blood -stained economic expectations are attesting to this, with an American stagnation that is now a coin. Therefore, also, in the financial markets, with more than 6 lost triots from global stock markets and implicit fluctuations that have risen three times.

However, on the other side of this argument, there is no one today in any doubt that the cradle of the cat in global supply chains cannot be detected without years of re -engineering at a catastrophic cost. The delivery between very global trade and the costs of separation is the best possible border against the escalation of customs tariffs.

The excess sensitivity of the financial markets applies a dual lock. Through the telescope and the amplification of these costs, it acts as a disciplinary device in an actual time for politicians who claim to overcome the short -term pain. This makes surrender faster than it was in the past. The SMOOT-HWLYY tariff lasted for four years, four months of Nixon tariffs. The worst Trump tariff continued to barely a week.

Definitions can be reclassified. But once to bite, twice shy. Last month, he leaves President of the United States as a psychological scars with thin skin such as business and financial markets that he kept in Thral. The irresistible power helped to cause the US tariff to rise, but the unintended object of self -conservation will be its decline.

Despite all the discourse of the new world order, the world of global selection may be actually stronger than ever. It was widely expected to be a new financial matter after the global financial crisis. Twenty years later, we have seen some re -directing flows, but there is no major examination. World trade may follow a similar path, if there is anything fortified with recent events, perhaps even with China as an unlikely new hero.

Meanwhile, despite external expressions of panic, last month was a political gift for many world leaders. The trade war and talking about a new global system breathe life into significant and unpopular systems (Xi Jinping in China, Emmanuel Macron in France, Vladimir Putin in Russia), providing ready alternatives to the oven for new owners (Friedrich Mirz in Germany, Mark Carne in Canada, Saramel in the United Kingdom).

However, with the exception of China, the escalation announced by many leaders has so far been significantly, not objective. We had a month of mutual discourse instead of customs tariffs. If the forces of medium recovery and self -preservation remain strong, they may continue (and will) for a long time.

It is possible to eradicate the disappearance. Trump’s customs tariff may be distinguished by the new commercial chapter. Most likely, the arc of history will bend towards light, with recent events where there are no seasons heads. What we have seen is panic, not a heart attack for the global economy-in reality, which is great. In an excessive era, not a dug, we may save us the rise of the Palicani from ourselves.