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A trade deficit is not inherently unhealthy

Then even without that, your 6 biggest companies are Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta. Then the seventh is private equity. Then it's back to Alphabet again, and Broadcom.

The trade deficit calculation excludes services, including but not limited to: software

So even with countries where you supposedly have trade deficits you're not even sure that you really do.

TL;DR It won't help you select jack shit




I don't think our middle class can survive if all we make is software. Europe and others maintained its industrial base through heavy protectionism and tax manipulation. We can do that too.

Feel free to use the tariff information differently or not at all. I also want to buy more American products and this information may help with that too. Even if they are more expensive and their quality is inferior.

You can choose to do otherwise and I don't have a problem with that.


That's not what you said

You said: "This will help me select products from nations that have a healthier and more sustainable commercial relationship with the US."

It's not going to help you with that


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Drop your little red hat for some glasses and read the discussion again.




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