@[email protected] to [email protected] • 6 days agoTrump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagreewww.cbc.camessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1131
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish38•6 days agoTrade deficit means you’re getting more stuff than the other side is. He’d rather have the dollars than the stuff? What are you gonna spend the dollars on if there’s no stuff? Isn’t “too many dollars chasing too few goods” the textbook definition of inflation?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•6 days ago He’d rather have the dollars than the stuff? I suspect that’s exactly the case. He sees money as an end rather than a means. A regrettably common disease.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•6 days ago He’d rather have the dollars than the stuff? No, he wants both. That’s why he doesn’t pay his bills.
Trade deficit means you’re getting more stuff than the other side is.
He’d rather have the dollars than the stuff?
What are you gonna spend the dollars on if there’s no stuff?
Isn’t “too many dollars chasing too few goods” the textbook definition of inflation?
I suspect that’s exactly the case. He sees money as an end rather than a means. A regrettably common disease.
Typical capitalist
Like any common capitalist. Money is all.
Money changers for ya… jesus warned us all about them.
No, he wants both. That’s why he doesn’t pay his bills.