The trade deficit corresponds to dollar outflow, and those dollars are recycled back through US Treasury and US property purchases.
so when we talk about the country being sold off (on net),is the current account deficit a more accurate measure of that than
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the trade deficit?
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Probably, yes; whereas trade deficit more interesting for macroeconomy (employment, GDP growth, wages)
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To be clear: a big current account deficit could be all lending, and a small one could have large globalist asset swaps both ways.
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