Trying to predict Donald Trump's economic policy decisions from one moment to the next is a fool's errand.
The president sees paying other countries for goods and then receiving those goods as a sucker's deal and granting him the power to make unilateral decisions on U.S. trade has roiled the markets over the last few months. Seeking some serenity with the dealmaker-in-chief upending decades-long understandings and agreements, Wall Street has found its zen in a truism: Trump will always back down before anything too horrible happens.
