Adam Posen
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first heard Aug 2025
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We had basically obedience from all these countries in military alliances that they would do sanctions for the most part if we wanted to do sanctions.
They would, in Okinawa, in in Rhein Main Air Base, they would take our troops and support.
them and have them garrisoned in their country, have our troops forward and doing a whole host of things.
And on the economic front, it gave us
Disproportionate shares not just of the stable investment in treasuries.
But things like
Our standards for technology, our standards for legal matters, our our financial system were the default.
Anyway, so this had lots of benefits, lots of benefits for them, lots of benefits for us.
It was a good business.
Essentially what's happened is you have a beach house in Malibu.
Which you hadn't sured.
And you weren't gonna build the beach house unless it was insured.
Fine.
You're paying insurance, you're getting something for it.
Now there's global warming, hurricanes are more likely, there's erosion in the beach.
You're prepared to pay a bit more for your insurance, but instead you find your insurer has decided, nope, we're gonna deny your claims, or you have to slip us something under the table to get your claim adjusted.
Nope, we're tripling your premium and if you don't like it we're gonna leave the state and you're not gonna have insurance anymore.
That's what the Trump administration is doing.
Well th this is something I and colleagues of the Peterson Institute have been struggling against.
For several years now, uh, not just Trump.
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