[NautiNurse]

Imports were seeded with federal stimulus money for mobile phones, toys and furniture. Pay now and pay later.

[ClearCase_guy]

Our economic recovery is so strong that we’re losing money on this deal! Whoo-Hoo!

[Leaning Right]

> U.S. demand for Chinese goods surged <

Only because the idiots in DC enact policies that restrict domestic manufacturing. Nobody deliberately wants to buy ChiCom junk. But in far too many cases that’s the only option.

Trump was perhaps the only president ever who understood that. So of course he had to go. (See my tagline.)

[PGR88]

This works as long as the US Dollar remains the world’s main reserve currency.

When it does not, we become something resembling Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. For society and politics, we are already half-way there.

[WMarshal]

A ptomkin recovery of ever-increasing national debt.

When the schit hits the fan either the Davos crowd will need to pay for the US national debt or there will be a national bankruptcy because I will never pay taxes to service the debt they forced on us with their scam.

[COBOL2Java]

Trade deficit with China grew 14.5% for the full year to $355.3 billion, as U.S. demand for Chinese goods surged amid the post-pandemic economic recovery.

Don't forget 10% for the Big Guy...