Almost none of those charts have anything to do with trade (except for the West Texas Crude chart, and you want to raise those prices, remember?).
Meaning...........
Wrong again.
My position is simple. Import tariffs.
Until and unless Texas secedes, West Texas Crude isn’t imported. :)
See how that works?
The author is a leftist populist disguised as an economics commentator.
He blames outsourcing for the lack of jobs. Completely missing the near century long war on capital right here in America.