How can that be???

[transporter]

With all that "winning" going on, all those wonderful deals Trump and ONLY Trump can make....how can it be that our trade deficit continues to expand???

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/ft900.pdf

Year-to-date, the goods and services deficit increased $49.1 billion, or 11.9 percent, from the same period in 2016.

Gee...with a damn near 12% increase in the trade deficit you would think every American would be unemployed by now!

 

[vraiblonde]

With all that "winning" going on, all those wonderful deals Trump and ONLY Trump can make....how can it be that our trade deficit continues to expand???

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/ft900.pdf



Gee...with a damn near 12% increase in the trade deficit you would think every American would be unemployed by now!

Hang tight a year, then let's revisit. We're still operating under Maobama's trade "deals".

 

[Starman]

Hang tight a year, then let's revisit. We're still operating under Maobama's trade "deals".

Then the joke will be on you because trade deal structure has zero to do with trade deficits. Trade deficits are driven primarily by lack of domestic manufacturing. As a result US consumers purchase more imported goods than domestically made ones.

It’s a shame they don’t teach this stuff in schools any longer.

 

[vraiblonde]

Trade deficits are driven primarily by lack of domestic manufacturing. As a result US consumers purchase more imported goods than domestically made ones

So you're just not paying attention to what Trump's been doing for the last year?

 

[Starman]

So you're just not paying attention to what Trump's been doing for the last year?

Those actions do not affect trade deficits.

Start with Thomas Sowell’s book Basic Economics and see where that takes you.

 

[vraiblonde]

Those actions do not affect trade deficits.

You said:

"Trade deficits are driven primarily by lack of domestic manufacturing."

So again, I say: So you're just not paying attention to what Trump's been doing for the last year?

 

[Starman]

So again, I say: So you're just not paying attention to what Trump's been doing for the last year?

I sure have.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...omment-trump-carrier-jobs-20171130-story.html

https://actionnetwork.org/user_file...utsourcing_by_Federal_Contractors_Worsens.pdf

https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-ca...-at-a-record-pace-under-trump.html/?a=viewall

What were you saying about what Trump's been doing over the last year?

 

[Bird Dog]

Those actions do not affect trade deficits.

Start with Thomas Sowell’s book Basic Economics and see where that takes you.

Was Sowell a Communist or a Capitalist or just confused.......?
Deficits have not hurt the USA so far....just Union jobs that have priced themselves out of existence.....

 

[Starman]

Was Sowell a Communist or a Capitalist or just confused.......?

Just when I thought you were beginning to be self-sufficient...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell

Deficits have not hurt the USA so far....just Union jobs that have priced themselves out of existence.....

Compare and contrast the negative/positive of trade deficits/surpluses.

 

[GURPS]

yeah who cares .......

..... give cheap stuff made in China on Slave Labor Manufacturing Lines