FWIW? It's understandable how most people do not understand global economics, money markets, and Modern Monetary Theory. Everyone should, sure. But most people don't understand basic physics either.

Only when it's the president of a country and his hand-picked minion at the reserve bank who act ignorantly? That's how you get economic crashes. Just ask Herbert Hoover.

Also FWIW? Trump recently revived the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act. Ask Hoover about that one too…