Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump recently posted on Truth Social, saying he plans to provide up to $5,000 in a “Trump Dividend” to every adult in the United States. He claimed the funding would come from tens of trillions of dollars in gains generated by economic growth, external investment, and national prosperity, and urged voters to support the Republican Party.
From a macro-policy perspective, this aggressive fiscal commitment must be viewed with extreme caution by rigorous economic analysts. Direct, indiscriminate cash payments on a massive scale are, in essence, an ultra-expansionary form of fiscal stimulus similar to the bailout payments used to address the pandemic. Against the backdrop of the U.S. government’s persistently high deficit ratio and a heavy burden of national debt, the assumption that “economic growth will naturally cover the costs” is highly fragile. If implemented, it would deal a devastating blow to long-term fiscal discipline.
For traditional financial markets, such promises of large-scale direct subsidies would significantly raise forward inflation expectations. Injecting tens of trillions of dollars in liquidity directly into the consumer side will inevitably spark a rebound in demand, forcing the Federal Reserve to keep the terminal interest rate at a high level for a longer period—and potentially triggering expectations of a new round of tightening. Treasury yields, especially on the long end, would face upward repricing risk, and the dollar liquidity environment would become highly uncertain.
For risk assets such as cryptocurrencies,
$BTC may see speculative volatility in the short term due to expectations of potential liquidity overheating. But from a prudent standpoint, the biggest medium- to long-term obstacle is the pressure created by high interest rates driven by the risk of re-acceleration in inflation. Blindly expecting a bull market fueled by “helicopter money” is not rational. If this leads to further erosion of fiat purchasing power and a broad contraction in liquidity due to regulation, risk assets ultimately will have to absorb larger volatility and discounting.
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