frozenicecube@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 5 days agoTrump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagreewww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down11
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minus-squarekibiz0rlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·5 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-squarenyan@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·5 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-squareTheDonkerZ@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 days agoLike any common capitalist. Money is all.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 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.
No, he wants both. That’s why he doesn’t pay his bills.