A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL, Libera #182 - TRUMP'S SEESAW PITCHES THE US AGAINST THE EUROPEAN UNION (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Trump II administration tried to turn the global economy upside down 
and failed. More than two months after the start and retreat of the 
tariff war, the outlook within the Empire is very bleak. ---- JPMorgan 
strategists warn that the rise in US stocks is at risk of stagflation. 
Higher prices and weaker economic growth in the US during the northern 
hemisphere summer will likely threaten the rise of the S&P 500 (the main 
US stock index), according to strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The threat of stagflation and continued uncertainty over trade 
negotiations between the US and its largest partners will keep stocks 
under control in the coming months, according to the strategists. The 
"speculation strategists" also said that "the current tariff scenario is 
worse than most thought at the beginning of 2025." The bearish forecast 
comes after the S&P 500 posted its best month since 2023, but concerns 
about global trade tensions and the growing US budget deficit have 
returned. The US population-among so-called "developed" Western 
countries-suffers the most from the poverty gap, with social segments 
living under dystopian tyranny: fragile jobs, debt, homelessness, a 
pharmaceutical drug epidemic, more than 100 million armed civilians, and 
a third of the citizenry under intense police repression.

Europe prepares "countermeasures" if tariff agreement with the US fails
European Commission spokesman Olof Gill stated at a regular press 
conference in Brussels on Monday, June 2, that "the EU is prepared to 
impose countermeasures" if trade negotiations between the two parties 
fail. Since Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, his 
barrage of tariffs against US trading partners has shaken the "global 
market," at least the Western-controlled one. These "partners" face 
tariffs ranging from 11% to over 100% on imported goods.
However, most of Trump's tariffs were suspended for 90 days due to the 
volatility of the US stock market. Thus, the Empire is sinking itself, 
at least in terms of company listings. Because even that has changed. 
The stock market is no longer as influential. Real control lies with 
so-called "investment funds," billionaire speculators who control 
immense amounts of money and strain positions in the Latin American debt 
market, including Brazil.
Meanwhile, the European Union is finalizing an "expanded list of 
countermeasures" that "will automatically take effect if and if the US 
tariff hikes are reinstated."
Endless Arrogance
World trade is based on maritime freight and the insurance of 
transactions guaranteed by banks within the Swift System. Since the US 
still has the power to "turn on and off" a country from the 
Western-controlled interbank exchange mechanism, it can block a 
significant portion of exports and imports. But even that wouldn't 
prevent all international trade.

Thus, Trump understood he needed to "impose tariffs" on the entry of 
products into the United States. His "tariff seesaw" simply paralyzes 
export and import contracts to the Empire's territory and leaves the 
West in tatters due to its endless cracks in the International System of 
state power.

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