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Well it will be interesting. For the last decades the US had printed money with bonds and exporters to the US have bought those bonds to spend their dollars and not put pressure on their own currency.

If China is no longer exporting to the US it will no longer need to buy bonds, so if the us is printing money with bonds where dollars are not parked, those dollars increase dollar supply and therefor increase inflation. Money 101.




If those jobs come back to the US, then less need for bonds. If those jobs go to Vietnam, won't they just buy the bonds to keep their currency stable against the dollar?


Money 101 would dictate inflation in us economy, we dont see that. So i guess we need to ad some more nuance to things


China hasn't stopped buying US bonds, or have I missed something?



Why are you responding to your own comment?


Probably because of not knowing about the "edit" button. At least, replying to myself is what I did before I knew I could edit comments.


That's why precious metals are being legalized as tender across the states.




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