Posted on 01/18/2017 5:19:10 AM PST by expat_panama
I answered your question directly and succinctly. I suppose you believe that you asked some other, hidden question that I dodged for nefarious reasons?
There was a question in my comment #31. Hint: look for the QUESTION mark.
You’ve asked me no question other than the one that I answered. You appear to be confusing me with some other FReeper. Cosmic questions shaking your fist at the sky shouting “why WHY???!!!!” don’t really accomplish much, you’ll discover.
Let’s back up a little. Do you see a question mark in comment #31?
When international-trade signals to international-currency markets a lowering in value of a currency, that is one thing.
To intentionally want to, and take action to lower the value of your own currency is most usually in error. It is an attempt to game the markets into a value the markets have not determined. If it works, you might get more exports, but you are unlikely to get fewer imports and most likely to get more inflation, as even some lower level of imports will come in at higher-unit costs, in dollars, than before, and those costs will pass on to everyone, even to exporters via domestic inflation. Bad idea.
I see you demanding an answer from me for a question you never asked me, then a lot of self-pitying prattle following thereafter.
Would you care to break down just how your question regarding how your own advocacy has helped reduce your compensation leads into taxation?
What sort of convoluted thought process is this? I’ve not discussed taxation, I’ve not mentioned it at all. You have me confused with some other FReeper, as I’ve mentioned before.
“If” our currency is, relative to other currencies, over-valued than that disturbs the economic equilibrium and creates pressures towards returning to the equilibrium. Either under-valued currencies increase or over-valued currencies decrease but homeostasis will rule the day...
Ok, so the first guy couldn’t answer my first question, and you couldn’t answer my second. At least he bailed on it without playing stupid. In my comment #31, I asked you a question regarding your notion of “labor arbitrage,” and how the federal government should address it.
RegulatorCountry You cannot possibly be attempting to claim that exchange rates have no effect upon trade.
This is the problem w/ this conversation, that I say something and other folks will not only refuse to think they won't even believe I said what I said.
So on the one hand we got folks on the FR that just love to believe what they want and there's the rest of us who're busy feeding our families and we prefer to believe what is. It's always like that, we listen to people and we tell them to stop talking and---
Show me US exchange rates along with the trade balance, and then lets see how one always controls the other.
I like protectionism only when it comes to military technology.
Let’s just continue on with the Chinese dollar peg since it has no effect, according to you, lol? Please.
I would rather get my middle class manufacturing full time job back, than working in 2 part time jobs with no health insurance and no retirement benefits.
I would love to have my grandfather's lifetime employment at a major U.S. manufacturer, but I would never want to have his standard of living.
But to you the company not moving is a bad thing. All of those thousands of US workers keeping their jobs means nothing. You went on record as not caring about "displaced" working class Americans. You are a threat to the USA. You are an embarrassment and an unwitting Marxist tool.
How do you transport and sell the things you manufacture? Do auto manufacturers sell their cars at roadside stands right outside their plants?
It's amazing how many people on this site seem to think we can employ millions of Americans simply by outlawing this sort of thing:
Speaking of “tool,” how will your vaunted 10% tariff affect the jobs at those domestic U.S. manufacturers that rely upon imported materials?
I try and think long-term. In the long-term trading blocs will develop such that they consist of the countries with the lowest trade barriers with each other. These blocs will thrive while those with more trade barriers will be relatively less prosperous.
I guarantee that a more protectionist US will lead to most of the world’s nations looking to make trade deals with the EU (which will be Muslim in a few generations). Then EU goes up in power and America goes down in power. Note that China will look to the EU more as well.
Actually my list is wrong actually. My list was supposed to be things that CREATE wealth. Marketing, transportation, warehousing and retailing do not create wealth at all, only transfer it. These are "middlemen" processes that are actually adding to cost of the product. A necessary but expensive detriment.
Don’t be silly. Transport drivers and retailers don’t create wealth. They all should get jobs at plants making stuff that can’t be transported or sold.
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