Just heard a radio clip of Trump responding to the possibility of tariff negotiations. He said something about negotiating really good deals and if countries didn’t work out the type of deal the US wanted they wouldn’t have access to US markets. Not direct quote but that was the gist of the message.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      A thought occured to me about what more is he expecting from countries who are willing to lower their tariffs to zero? Other than VAT’s and certain non-economic types of political barriers, is there something else that he wants from the rest of the world to trade with the US?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           I would not be surprised if what he is shooting for, are specific commitments by every country, to invest in the US, by agreeing to buy a certain amount of US Treasuries for their reserves. Obviously, it would be proportional based on the size of their economies and how much volume of trade they do with the US. I don’t know if that is it, but what else could be more important and helpful, to at least delay the decline of the US dollar and it’s declining level of total trade flows?