Wealth is created by making stuff. Or more correctly making stuff other people would like to have. The more (good) stuff you make the more wealth you have created. Cars, corn, casinos, whatever were all made by somebody or a group of somebodies. While gold bars or barrels of oil were not "made" they were discovered and processed into a usable product by somebody so I am going to throw them into the same bucket as the (good) stuff somebody made. There is no other way to create wealth other than making stuff. Everybody not involved in making stuff is just getting a slice of the wealth created by somebody making stuff.
A doctor maybe preforming a valuable service by saving your life but he has not created any wealth. Dido the bartender that hands you a beer after a hard day of bashing Trump.
Does our trade policy encourage us make more stuff here or does it encourage our producers to produce else where?
Ok lets do the math. Making stuff produces wealth our trade policy encourages our producers to produce else where. Ergo our trade policy is causing us (USA) to lose wealth. Put another way we are getting poorer while the productive nations (China) are getting richer.
:) logic is your friend.
Yes there are other reasons manufacturing and jobs are fleeing the USA but trade our policy is not helping producers here at home.
One last thing our "trading partners" in Asia and else where are not engaging in "free trade" with the USA. That is a fallacy perpetuated by the globalist seeking to destroy the American middle class so they can implement a NWO. With them on top of course.
You seem to not have sufficient respect for the work of finance and banking. You perhaps feel they are sucking money away from the laborers and those who produce goods and services. Your post reminds me of a commie-type post as your attitude toward venture capital and finance seems like a commie attitude.