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What the World Dollar Standard does to Trade Deficits

 

World Dollar Standard, World Dollar, Devaluation of Dollar, Business News, World News, Trade Deficit

From http://www.thegoldstandardnow.org/key-blogs/171-the-first-economic-disorder

The First Economic Disorder

 

Next we turn our attention to the economic infirmities of the world dollar system, which:

  1. Cause a persistent trade deficit, hollowing out our industrial base.
  2. Enable a persistent and alarmingly high federal budget deficit.
  3. Destabilize the value of the dollar, fomenting euphorias and panics.

The first of the world dollar standard’s economic disorders:

1.  The world dollar standard causes a persistent trade deficit, hollowing out our industrial base.

The U.S. trade deficit grew to $497.8 billion in 2010, from $374.9 billion in 2009.  This means that Americans bought almost half a trillion dollars of goods and services from abroad more than what we sold.  Many people sense that it is wrong to spend more than you earn, particularly at this scale.  They are right.

 

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