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Basically, in a balanced trade environment, the most competitive economy would commander the lion's share of global investment. Historically, the US had led the pack for over 200 years for a couple of simple reasons:

(a) Poor, impoverished, yet highly ambitious people left the comfort of their native homelands in an attempt to carve out a new life; (b) N America is awash in natural resources; (c) N America has an unbeatable geographic advantage.

To illustrate these observations, I recently returned from a bi-annual trip to W Europe. The impression which always strikes me the greatest are the people who **stayed**. For those who haven't visited Europe, it's hard to imagine a more perfect place. It's hard to imagine the level of deprivation which existed to force them to leave the comfort & beauty. It's obvious that striking out penniless with no family or friends took a tremendous amount of courage. However, the end result is that we are their descendants - much more rough hewn, almost animalistic compared to Euros. Yet, it takes our exact independent composition to keep saving their asses.

Without unfair trade deals that gave other countries favorable advantages, no country could really hope to compete with us. Our basic work ethic attracts both capital investment and inventive geniuses who realize their best chances for success lies in backing the US economy. And so, when you tour Europe, it takes only moments to realize that everyone is using US smart phones, searching US databases, using US social media and absorbing US entertainment, fashion and culture.

Any top level business executive already knows all of this. The game the globalists were playing was to stack the deck against the US by favoring less competitive countries. Trump knew all he had to do was strip away and rescind those bad deals and the US economy would once again dominate the world.

Like a hard pressed battle that can still swing one way or the other, the critical moment the tide finally breaks sets the tone for decades, perhaps centuries. Witness US independence, GB victory @ Waterloo, or US victory in WWII. Trump is so close to finalizing his/our victory - when it occurs, all the smart money will get off the sides in a rush to get in on the ground floor.