just "gaining experience" in damaging the global economy through our own bad policy? I'd argue we've been doing that since Smoot-Hawley, or in the dying days of

just "gaining experience" in damaging the global economy through our own bad policy? I'd argue we've been doing that since Smoot-Hawley, or in the dying days of Bretton Woods ("the dollar is our currency, but your problem")... Isn't there that old saying, "when the US sneezes, the world catches a cold"?