President Trump often points to it as an indication of just how good his presidency is, for him at least, but questions continue to mount. Demand is OK in aggregate but soft for probably the downmarket 80 percent of people in the US economy. That decline in the size of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, is now starting to fence President Trump in. President Trump has an issue with Current Accounts and although his tariff fetish hasn’t really come off as expected it has fractured globalisation as it was known. The renegades in Taipei might easily have some technological gimmicks of their own to cause what the French would refer to as gêne.