President Trump calls his new trade agreement with Japan the “biggest deal ever,” claiming it will bring $550 billion in investment and 90% of the profits to the U.S. But as Axios’ Courtenay Brown explains on Way Too Early,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Japan will form a joint venture to develop a liquefied natural gas project in Alaska though a Japanese government official said he was not aware of such plans.

Trump will show no mercy to [either] a lame duck Ishiba or because of a political vacuum,” advisory firm Quantum Strategy said.

Japan's top tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, the Asahi newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The delay between Trump’s decision to impose high import taxes in the spring, and the onset of induced inflation in June, was widely predicted. After Trump’s election, many US companies went on a buying spree,