Steve Hanke tells BI investors are shrugging off serious risks — and Trump is causing historic uncertainty

07/02/2025 Notes in the Margin Steve H. Hanke

“We have not witnessed regime uncertainty since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Dealers in the 1930s,” Hanke said.

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Steve Hanke is a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute and a Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University. He can be followed on X @steve_hanke.

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