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“Nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth.”—On a quest to find bullets that remain unbitten—bdmatthews71@gmail.com

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    1. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      If some idiot journalist mentions trade deficits without mentioning capital and current accounts I'm going to throw my keyboard in the lake. luckily there is no lake nearby. That "jobs before journalism" thread really confirmed what I always thought. J-schoolers know nothing!

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    2. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      If you have a CURRENT ACCOUNT DEFICIT you will by definition have a CAPITAL ACCOUNT SURPLUS. This means we had to BORROW THE MONEY to BUY THE STUFF which created the TRADE DEFICIT. Does that sound smart?

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    3. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      Alternatively, when we have a trade deficit - we give foreigners our currency - because we have to convert USD to their money. Then they have all this extra USD to do what....INVEST IN US ASSETS Like buy our property, buy up natural resources, buy over inflated real estate.

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    4. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      does that sound smart? Trade deficits with China for example also mean that federal bond rates are kept low (China needs to invest that money somewhere) - so we are induced into borrowing even more money. does THIS sound smart?

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    5. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      The United States has been the BUYER OF LAST RESORT for the world economy for decades. The result of this spending spree is our distorted inflated bubble like asset markets from bonds, to stocks, to real estate. Does THIS sound smart?

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    6. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      As a commenter said, then we doubled down with TARP where we printed money to buy back our own over inflated assets! Brilliant!

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    7. Jack Murphy‏ @jackmurphylive Jul 26

      Guys, I'm not some dopey anon Twitter account telling you to reach for your dreams. I have a degree in Econ. I have a Masters in International Finance. I worked for an international hedge fund. I've studied this for my entire life. Don't listen to the dumb ass j-schoolers.

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      BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jul 26
      Replying to @jackmurphylive

      The missing piece of everyone’s trade model: tech hardware has enormous economies of scale; China used cheap labor and financial repression to basically force local manufacturers to catch up to/surpass the US.

      2:41 PM - 26 Jul 2018
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        2. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jul 26
          Replying to @matthews_bd @jackmurphylive

          The Econ 101 model ignores economies of scale, and ignores supply chains—China has shifted supply chains to their country, and it’s going to be hard to shift them back. Doable, though!

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        3. BD Matthews‏ @matthews_bd Jul 26
          Replying to @matthews_bd @jackmurphylive

          One thing becomes clearer by the day. America’s a country run by people talking on TV; China’s a country run by guys slaving over spreadsheets. Long term, it shows.

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