Trump And Unforeseen Troubling Realities
Trump And Unforeseen Troubling Realities
Economy/General | Jan 2025
Inferential Focus
Africa, AI, Alliances, Alternative energy, Artificial Intelligence, Australia, Autocrats, Belt and Road, Brazil, China, Climate Change, Commodities, Currency, Economy, Electric grids, Electric vehicles, Energy, England, Era of Limits, EU, Europe, European Union, EVs, Food, Geo-economics, Geopolitics, Immigration, India, Indonesia, Inflation, Insurance, Iran, Israel, Japan, Labor, Large Language Model, Manufacturing, Middle East, Military, Minerals, Mining, NEVs, Oil, Politics, Qatar, Renewables, Resource Nationalism, Resources, Risk, Russia, Saudi Arabia, SCO, Solar, Syria, Tariffs, Terrorism, Trade, Trump, UAE
Political rhetoric dominates the news, mostly on the topic of what president-elect Donald Trump plans to do after being sworn in as the forty-seventh president of the U.S.: tax cuts, budget cuts, agency disruptions, mass deportations, legal retribution and a plethora of new policies given to appointees who, though lacking in experience, promise to carry out the president’s goals. So it goes with nearly all presidents – big plans . . . until those plans get derailed by reality. Or, as Mike Tyson once said: “Everyone has a plan ‘til they get punched in the face.” Such an unanticipated punch has happened to every president in this century. While the incoming administration has its plans, history waits with other ideas, and we offer a few areas that might produce the kind of distraction that will derail Trump’s big plans. First, A New Global Architecture in Politics; second, Not Your Father’s Middle East; and third, From An Addiction to Growth to An Era of Limits. Any one of these huge phenomena could interrupt an administration. Moreover, these issues do not include risks that will likely result from climate change and artificial intelligence (AI), nor do they include how global power struggles will progress as countries with money vie to win the allegiance of countries needing massive reconstruction after devastating wars and natural disasters.