Nobody knows about the currency war. Read Jim Rickard's book "Currency Wars." We lost that because the US Dollar used to be backed by oil, known as the "PetroDollar" since the 70's when Nixon killed the gold standard (coincidentally around the time Kissinger negotiated a deal to open up China as our supplier of goods). Before, nobody could buy oil except with US Dollars (does OPEC make sense now?) - the only reason the entire world uses US Dollars and we get to print all the money for free. That has come to an end. The IMF also recently recognized China's economy as surpassing the US because they own all the manufacturing. What do we produce? We produce the world's "debt" essentially. The credit card of the world. But that has now come to an end and Americans have no idea about this currency side of the spectrum. This is the GLOBAL CURRENCY RESET. Bretton Woods 3 is essentially here, the time when the world re-evaluates how global currencies are exchanged and traded and valued against each other. The IMF's SDR system may replace the US Dollar hegemony. Recently China has been bypassing the US Dollar and created their own Gold exchange system for oil. China has also been buying all of the Gold. We indeed have been sold out by all of our politicians because they are all bought and paid for and don't give a damn about patriotism. Now does it make sense why Trump was trying to kick-start manufacturing? He knows the US will have to compete with the world without the US Dollar being the king currency. Manufacturing is our only hope of competing. This other administration doesn't care about making us competitive, they're happy to plunder what is left of America and make themselves rich.