"Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to appeal to the instincts of Donald Trump, named for the president’s personal Florida retreat. The Mar-a-Lago Accord idea also envisions that foreign governments holding US Treasuries would convert these to 100-year bonds. The mechanism for achieving these objectives is to threaten trade and investme