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https://voxday.net/2025/04/12/trade-deficit-whip-hand/

Trade Deficit = Whip Hand
Vox Day
April 12, 2025

Donald Trump makes the textbook economics explicit:

https://www.rt.com/news/615679-trump-tariffs-too-high-dont-do-business-us/

The countries that deem US tariffs on their goods to be too high can just stop doing business with America altogether, President Donald Trump has suggested. He further insisted that his latest trade policies have made
the US "strong," bringing "billions of dollars a day" into its coffers.

On Wednesday, the US president slapped stiffer "reciprocal" tariffs on nearly 90 nations, only to announce a 90-day pause and a "substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%," in a post on his Truth Social platform several hours later. The pause however does not
apply to China, with which the US has engaged in a tit-for-tat exchange of ever-higher tariffs, with most of Beijing's imports now subject to a 145% duty.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump proclaimed
that "ultimately, we pretty much can do what we want to do. We can set the tariff, and they can choose not to deal with us, or they can choose to pay it," he explained, asserting that "if they think it's too high, they don't have to do business with us."

It's a simple and obvious power equation. When you have nothing to lose, and you're the one who owns the market in which everyone is interested, then
you're in control. No country with a trade deficit with the USA has any leverage at all, because the US is obviously better off not trading with it than continuing to trade with it on the basis of the system that has impoverished and hollowed-out the US economy.

This is why the threats of returning the favor are so empty and stupid. The
USA would BENEFIT from pure autarky, so trade restrictions are not a viable threat. The President's move is brilliant, because it not only protects the
US markets, it prevents US companies from leaving the USA as well.

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Strap the Grifters to Gurneys wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

https://voxday.net/2025/04/12/trade-deficit-whip-hand/

Trade Deficit = Whip Hand
Vox Day
April 12, 2025

Donald Trump makes the textbook economics explicit:

https://www.rt.com/news/615679-trump-tariffs-too-high-dont-do-business-us/

Spasibo, comrade. RT :-D

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On 13/4/25 0:23, Strap the Grifters to Gurneys wrote:

This is why the threats of returning the favor are so empty and
stupid. The
USA would BENEFIT from pure autarky, so trade restrictions are
not a viable
threat. The President's move is brilliant, because it not only
protects the
US markets, it prevents US companies from leaving the USA as well.

Why did Insane Oranger fold like a wet crepe paper bag when Japan
decided it no longer wanted US treasury paper. Maybe we want some
continued business.

Autarky has worked so well for DPRK.

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Strap the Grifters to Gurneys <enforcement@doge.gov> wrote in news:vtfop8$3egsk$1@news.tcpreset.net:

https://voxday.net/2025/04/12/trade-deficit-whip-hand/

Trade Deficit = Whip Hand
Vox Day
April 12, 2025

Donald Trump makes the textbook economics explicit:

https://www.rt.com/news/615679-trump-tariffs-too-high-dont-do-business-
us/

The countries that deem US tariffs on their goods to be too high can
just stop doing business with America altogether, President Donald
Trump has suggested. He further insisted that his latest trade
policies have made the US "strong," bringing "billions of dollars a
day" into its coffers.

On Wednesday, the US president slapped stiffer "reciprocal" tariffs
on nearly 90 nations, only to announce a 90-day pause and a
"substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of
10%," in a post on his Truth Social platform several hours later.
The pause however does not apply to China, with which the US has
engaged in a tit-for-tat exchange of ever-higher tariffs, with most
of Beijing's imports now subject to a 145% duty.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, Trump
proclaimed that "ultimately, we pretty much can do what we want to
do. We can set the tariff, and they can choose not to deal with us,
or they can choose to pay it," he explained, asserting that "if they
think it's too high, they don't have to do business with us."

It's a simple and obvious power equation. When you have nothing to
lose, and you're the one who owns the market in which everyone is
interested, then you're in control. No country with a trade deficit
with the USA has any leverage at all, because the US is obviously
better off not trading with it than continuing to trade with it on the
basis of the system that has impoverished and hollowed-out the US
economy.

This is why the threats of returning the favor are so empty and
stupid. The USA would BENEFIT from pure autarky, so trade restrictions
are not a viable threat. The President's move is brilliant, because it
not only protects the US markets, it prevents US companies from
leaving the USA as well.

Ah! We see that you dropped out of 3rd grade.

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