As it turns out, no one wants to invest in infrastructure when all the inputs are going to be tariffed to oblivion. All else equal why invest in USA when you could invest somewhere where you can import the needed inputs much cheaper? Protectionism isn't enough to overcome losing access to world markets.

Eventually the protected industries will be totally disconnected from global markets causing them to lose global competitiveness, to the point they cannot even compete with the black market markups. And then you are maga, er mega, fucked.

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betaby 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> why invest in USA when you could invest somewhere where you can import the needed inputs much cheaper?

What markets do you have in minds? Can retail investors invest there?

	▲	mothballed 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I foresee something closer to a proportional increase of investment in all the remaining accessible markets, as US relative attractiveness decreases, rather than it moving to a specific other place. So basically, everywhere else, proportionally. Even markets that have worse import/export restrictions, will still have relative changes in their attraction. For a rough approximation non-US world index ETFs, which are available to retail investors.