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President Donald Trump, digging into a deep hole for the US on his tariffs, it may be about to do with the creation of a sovereign fund in a sovereign fund. It’s a suggestion that is born in envy rather than meaning.

The US president, who does not hide his desire to follow the glass parade or a new paint role

The whole concept does not care about reality. Unlike the Middle Eastern Kingdoms, whose sovereign capital pools were formed with excess oil income, the US was a mortgage country. It has less than $ 6tn of assets and debts over $ 45TN. With the talk of tax cuts, the failure of the government’s called the Department of Pictivence to follow its promises and today the hope of a sovereign fund, America will be poorer.

To generate the initial capital pool for what should be called “Trump Fund”, the administration is as weighted by using a financial hand. It wants to pour gold reserves of gold and borrow against extended amounts.

Trump talk designers about “monetising” or “securitising” property in the country. Those words, when used with wall staseterters, it is hard to say that we bet we can make a ransom king of the money we borrowed. Tactics is reminding the way in which Trump has raised the size and amount of his own real estate portfolio to shaking bank loans. We all know how it’s over.

Properties in Trump Fund must compare their plan to the good and mocked ways in other countries organizing sovereign funds. The shining example of the Pension of the Norway Government of Norway Global, was held in 1990 when the Norway government, which decided nearly $ 1.7tn to arrive at a North Sea fund

The same goes for GIC and Temasek, two cars built by the Government in Singapore, the former investment in foreign country reserves, an entity originally charged with the administrative companies. Or see how canada runs Canada Pension Plan Investment Board or Superannuation Funds in Australia, organized at the PENNERS.

If Trump and his counselors were so proud to follow the lead in other countries, then they should look closer to the house, in Alaska. In 1980, Alaska leaders made Alaska Permanent Fund to invest 25 percent of state income from the North Slope oil. Each year the fund, starting at least $ 1mn and now has $ 80bn of assets, paying a dividding with each Alaskan resident.

Trump Fund looks like a whim, no more. Some funds I have discussed are, at the beginning, insulated against politics of meditation and generally succeeded. It is difficult to imagine the Republicans today forcing similar guards when they made a blind eye of memecoins and his dissatisfied appetite for its own purse.

If the US is forced to have a sovereign fund, it should be recognized as tariff funds. Instead of borrowing money against the future, the US should prompt any money done to tariffs and use it with good intention. They have to invest in two things: companies develop progress and make the US and research and development of critical technologies in tomorrow. If, however, a sovereign fund is set to rotate the fancies of the President, then faith in American finance finance – dealing with another fierce blow.