Joye has a column in the AFR – The Maverick.  I don’t read it because I think the author is odd.  But my eye did fall on a note at the weekend extolling Trump and his tariffs.  ‘What he really displayed was sublime decisioning…. Trump then shimmied into a genius pivot.’ 

Put to one side the rape of the English language.  This is deeply disturbing from a man who advises people about investments.  The paper tells us he ‘is a portfolio manager with Coolabah Capital, which invests in securities, including those discussed in his columns’.  So, we are all on notice. 

But as I understand it, Trump claims the legal right to impose tariffs in an ‘emergency’.  That is flatly inconsistent with shimmying them into a genius pivot.