IMF warns of 'major negative shock' from Trump's tariffs

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13. That's about $500 billion in a year Trump has cost the world - in real money, not stock value

If "the market" decreases, that's a theoretical value that, if all the companies involved could be sold at once, is lost. But of course, you can't buy or sell the whole of a stock market at once. But GDP is a real measure of useful work that people (in this case, the whole world) will do in a year. It means our efforts will be less effective, or there'll be less opportunity to benefit ourselves and others.

Hitler launching World War Two was more damaging, relatively, I'd guess, but maybe no other act by one person has rivalled this.