@ComicDaveSmith For all of us autists out there please, please, please find another word to use other than "debate."
You could substitute "unstructured free for all."
@SantiagoAuFund@JumboElliott76 You asked what he got wrong... wrecking other countries economies because we can is silly and long term unproductive.
As a laissez faire capitalist he is wrong at every level - from conflating trade deficits with interest rates to taxing Americans who want to by Rolex Watches.
@SantiagoAuFund@JumboElliott76 LOL . . . you are reaching. You are correct the US has the biggest hammer but wrecking other countries economy because we can is silly and long term unproductive.
Trump is a mercantilist, and a really bad one, and as it has failed before it will fail again.
He is a buffoon.
@SantiagoAuFund@JumboElliott76 He is a buffoon.
What he gets wrong is sure the US Government can shut down trade between the US and Switzerland, but then the US consumer does not get the goods they want to buy from Switzerland.
The same reason I have a trade deficit with grocery store.