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Worrying About the ‘Trade Deficit’ Is Absurd to the Nth Degree
Cafe Hayek ^ | January 6, 2017 | Don Boudreaux

Posted on 01/07/2017 10:36:27 AM PST by expat_panama

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To: Alberta's Child

Agriculture and manufacturing are different. A factory can move just about anywhere but you cannot crow bananas everywhere. But I’ve told you this many, many times.


81 posted on 01/09/2017 5:25:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jarhead9297

Is the Federal budget deficit over hyped? You sound like a dumb Democrat.


82 posted on 01/09/2017 5:26:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
But I’ve told you this many, many times.

You don't have to tell me anything. I made this exact same point later in Post #26.

83 posted on 01/09/2017 5:27:43 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: CodeToad
Globalist Free Traitors™ have a belief system similar to evolutionists and Radical Islam. Nothing is going to change their minds that de industrialization and trade deficits are a good thing. It makes you wonder if these people are truly sane.

I worry about them.

84 posted on 01/09/2017 5:32:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Are you going to employ Americans producing American goods and services for other Americans to consume? If not I hope your business fails completely.


85 posted on 01/09/2017 5:35:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va; Jarhead9297
The trade deficit is overhyped...

...the Federal budget deficit over hyped? You sound like a dumb Democrat.

Amazing how many people honestly don't seem to know that there's a difference.

86 posted on 01/09/2017 6:18:51 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

You didn’t answer the question.


87 posted on 01/09/2017 6:46:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

“Is the Federal budget deficit over hyped? You sound like a dumb Democrat.”

Did you notice during Obama’s terms that the media didn’t speak of it? Wanna bet they bring it up every day under Trump?


88 posted on 01/09/2017 7:03:25 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: expat_panama

“Amazing how many people honestly don’t seem to know that there’s a difference. “

We know the difference, but we also know that is a cause and effect between the two.


89 posted on 01/09/2017 7:05:24 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: central_va

Notice also that no one of these anti-Americans will answer the question of why it is great for foreign nations to have jobs but not America, that anything done to send jobs to foreign nations is a great thing but to do anything to bring them back here is a bad thing?


90 posted on 01/09/2017 7:06:52 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad
Coming MSM memes:
  1. Homelessness.
  2. Budget deficits.
  3. Unemployment.

91 posted on 01/09/2017 8:14:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: CodeToad; expat_panama
Panama went on record a few weeks ago stating he absolutely does not care what happens to "displaced" US workers, the plight of the lower middle class and the rust belt. It is not his problem or concern.

Free Trade uber alles!

92 posted on 01/09/2017 8:18:33 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Well, he’s a traitor to his country anyway having turned his back as an expat. Who the hell cares what some foreigner thinks anyway. He’s not my countryman anymore. He’s as bad as the other globalists: Made his money in America then wants to take it and spend it elsewhere.

F’em.


93 posted on 01/09/2017 8:26:47 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad
The trade deficit is overhyped...

...the Federal budget deficit over hyped? You sound like a dumb Democrat.

Amazing how many people honestly don't seem to know that there's a difference.

a cause and effect between the two.

You can't be talking about like in '09 when the 'trade deficit' fell back big time while the fed budg deficit soared big time.

94 posted on 01/09/2017 8:53:28 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

“You can’t be talking about like in ‘09 when the ‘trade deficit’ fell back big time while the fed budg deficit soared big time. “

That’s a rather simpleton view of the situation.


95 posted on 01/09/2017 8:55:24 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: central_va

I forgot to add, anyone that claims to understand finance but has to leave the country because they can’t make it otherwise is an idiot that should never be listened to.


96 posted on 01/09/2017 8:56:23 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: expat_panama

Correct, I almost choked on my coffee and had to read his comment twice. I thought the subject was trade deficit.

Wow lol


97 posted on 01/09/2017 9:00:36 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: expat_panama

I find the latest rash of comments somewhat comical. I see a mixing and mashing of words but I’m the dummy? Lol

Free trade and globalist are different terms with different meanings.
Trade deficit and federal budget deficit are two different terms with different meanings.

I feel we are amongst a bunch that pounds their chest when ignorance is pointed out. Instead of taking a step back let’s double down on stupid.

Comical


98 posted on 01/09/2017 9:07:11 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Jarhead9297

Just like jobs loses to automation are totally different than job loses to offshoring.


99 posted on 01/09/2017 9:20:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

We agree


100 posted on 01/09/2017 9:21:57 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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