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.