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Our Trade Deficit Helps Enable Our Fiscal Deficit; Let’s Reverse Both

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Our Trade Deficit Helps Enable Our Fiscal Deficit; Let’s Reverse Both
Euro, Hong Kong dollar, US dollar, Japanese yen, pound, and Chinese 100 yuan banknotes in this picture illustration, on Jan. 21, 2016. Jason Lee/Reuters
J.G. Collins
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A reader who had read my column, “The Day the Dollar Dies?” back in January wrote me and asked me to write a column on the relationship between fiscal deficits and trade deficits. I generally don’t take requests, but I think this one is important.
J.G. Collins
J.G. Collins
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J.G. Collins is managing director of the Stuyvesant Square Consultancy, a strategic advisory, market survey, and consulting firm in New York. His writings on economics, trade, politics, and public policy have appeared in Forbes, the New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, The Hill, The American Conservative, and other publications.
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