| This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion publishes each week based on web readership.  Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The clock is ticking for Donald Trump and his surrogates to provide answers to some critical questions around economic policy. Just look at the government bond market, which is the benchmark for the global financial system, and the dollar, by far the world's primary reserve currency. These markets signal that the warnings of faster inflation from economists who have analyzed the policies of a proposed Trump administration are all too real. And that means interest rates will be higher for longer, and tighter financial conditions will restrain the economy. A reckoning may be in store for equity investors if Trump or his surrogates don't soon provide the specifics of his plan to carry out a potentially costly trade war and the mass deportation of millions from the labor force without triggering inflation. What investors have heard so far is vague and contradictory. For example, Trump wants to boost the economy with tariffs, but doing so is widely expected to reignite inflation. He also wants to deport millions of immigrants, but that also threatens to reignite inflation. "Soon enough, the stock market will have to look past the promise of tax cuts and deregulation to assess just how disruptive Team Trump will be in their second term," Christopher Smart, managing partner of Arbroath Group and a former Treasury Department official in the Obama administration, wrote in a Nov. 11 Substack missive.
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