Category: Trade

Canonizing Trade Deficits

This past summer, I was at a wedding reception talking to a guy who was terrified about the trade deficit. “Did you KNOW,” he said, speaking in capital letters, “that the TRADE DEFICIT last year was 700 BILLION DOLLARS?!!” (That’s him verbatim. You could absolutely hear the extra exclamation points after the question mark.) I […]

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