When will all this winning stop?
I have a big brain! I’m a stable genius! I know more than the experts!
@imkmu3 “I have a big brain! I’m a stable genius! I know more than the experts!”
And don’t forget…I’m really, really rich!
Trade policies not working. And really need a distraction from other things. Let’s try a trade war. Simple. Good. Easy to win. Just ask my top economic advisor, Director of National Economic Council Gary Cohn. Wait. Where’d he go?
Wasn’t 2008 the year we swapped out the last stable genius who tanked the economy?
So basically he’s now run a monthly Trade Deficit that is worse than any of the 96 Deficits under Obama.
And of course all the Trump businesses manufacturing outside the USA help contribute to the deficit in spite of the lack of Trump popularity.
And the next tweet will blame this on Obama.
Winning!
Uhhh gee Professor…this whole Presidentin’ thing is harder than I thought…
“He blames persistent deficits on abusive practices by U.S. trading partners and on bad trade deals that put American companies at a disadvantage or encourage them to move factories overseas.”
you know what else puts the US’s companies at a disadvantage, the shit health care system we have, all other industrialized countries have universal health, so not a factor for their companies to have to deal with, we get profit-based health care, the others get health care
Most economists say they are caused by bigger economic forces, mainly the fact that the United States consistently spends more than it produces.
Read this and thought: “I hope this is by AP, and not one of TPM’s writers.”
It was AP. TPM is blameless. It is the AP writer who is trying to use a slightly disguised definition of a trade deficit as an explanation for a trade deficit.
This is like reading a math text that says: Most mathematicians say that squares are caused by arithmetical operations, mainly the multiplication of a number by itself.