[1rudeboy]

Actually, he led me to an epiphany: after all these years of complaining that I must mention the current goods trade deficit when speaking of the services trade surplus, I now understand he did it because he is too stupid to track it himself.

[expat_panama]

Say what you will but y'all have to admit Denny's consistent.  He wants trade surpluses, and and if we get hit with more of his import tax hikes, we'll probably get back the surpluses and everything else we had 75 years ago.