Time for a tone change. This is a tough call, since I’ve been a hard-core deflationist since the mid-1970s after reading a persuasive book by the late C.V. Myers, and later another, The Great Reckoning, by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Myers’ thesis was that the endgame for the epic credit blowout of the last 40 years would feature a dollar so strong that all who owed them would be crushed by imploding debt. The implied tsunami of bankruptcies would be even more devastating than the 1930s experience, wiping a dozen zeroes from the global balance sheet. The resulting shortage of dollars would become the catalyst for a Second Great Depression from which it would take a generation or longer to emerge. I still believe this is how things must end. But not now. Trump, who is verging on political omnipotence, clearly favors a weak dollar, and this will hold the coming bust at bay for a while. But the chart suggests the dollar is tough enough to stand up to such moderate debasement as Trump’s patriotism and nationalistic pride can abide. I have adjusted my outlook for the dollar accordingly: Look for weakness down to the range 95-100; then, an explosive rally that will end inflation for 60 years.