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Mar-a-Lago, or Much Ado That Might Never Happen
Reaching an accord would be highly complicated, and other countries don’t trust Trump. Brace instead for unbridled tariffs.
The invitations haven’t gone out yet.
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It can be difficult to remember that the Mar-a-Lago Accord hasn’t happened yet. Leaders haven’t been convened to Palm Beach, and there’s no agenda for what such an accord could include. But that hasn’t stopped people talking or journalists writing about it. This shows the total number of stories (from all sources) mentioning a “Mar-a-Lago Accord” each day on the Bloomberg terminal for the last year: