Get real/.... I was four years off. You better have something better than that
I see, so when you wrote:
Devo was big in 1980....
We didn’t run trade deficits back then,
Where does your claim of "four years off" fit in?
Your statement was a claim we didn't run trade deficits back then, however be we did run them back then in fact we have done so every year since 1976.(FYI 76-80 is five years) But we also had trade deficits prior to 76.
So your claim of four years doesn't work no matter what criteria you apply. Is math (along with economics) not a strong subject for you?