Successive United States restrictions on trade, migration and institutions gradually remove the automatic overweight that foreign investors give American assets, so the country's funding advantage narrows in steps rather than in a single event.
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Threatening universities' certification to enrol foreign students puts a large US services export — international tuition — under direct administrative risk, another increment in which American institutional access is made conditional and therefore less automatically attractive to foreign money and people.
Washington moved on capital, goods and people simultaneously — a 50 percent tariff on Canadian aluminium imposed even as Trump conceded the United States needs the metal, alongside a global pause on immigrant visas reshaping flows from China and Asia — with investors openly questioning the American overweight. Restricting all three factor flows at once is what converts a policy sequence into a portfolio decision, which is the step this thesis says narrows the funding advantage.
Supporting · August 27, 2026
Washington Restricts Capital, Goods and People at Once as Investors Question the American Overweight
Washington moved on capital, goods and people simultaneously — a 50 percent tariff on Canadian aluminium imposed even as Trump conceded the United States needs the metal, alongside a global pause on immigrant visas reshaping flows from China and Asia — with investors openly questioning the American overweight. Restricting all three factor flows at once is what converts a policy sequence into a portfolio decision, which is the step this thesis says narrows the funding advantage.
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