Posted by speckx 4 hours ago
I'm confused how a weak dollar makes it less attractive for foreigners to invest in the US. If your currency is stronger relative to the USD, doesn't it make productive US assets cheaper?
This seems like a pretty elementary mistake, doesn't even require economics, just common sense. Makes me question the rest of the editorials in the piece.
> This time the seismic event is President Trump’s efforts to remake the world order with an aggressive tariff push and a more isolationist foreign policy.
> The combination of Mr. Trump’s trade proposals, inflation worries and rising government debt has weighed on the dollar, which has also been buffeted by slowly sliding confidence in the role of the United States at the center of the global financial system.
> That means it is more expensive for Americans to travel abroad and less attractive for foreigners to invest in the United States[...]
Depends on where you think the dollar is going. If the answer is further down, you have lower expected returns in your own currency.