Discussion leader: Harris Hester
International Trade – It’s complicated
Foreign Affairs. Three Cheers for Trump’s Foreign Policy: What the establishment misses by Randy Schweller
China’s Small Share of an iphone
This is a brief fact check on the relationship between the federal deficit and the trade deficit.
http://www.crfb.org/blogs/did-trade-deficit-cause-20-trillion-debt
This is a more in depth analysis of the same thing.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/us-trade-deficit-not-debt-repay
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