America forgot to add the services trade surplus to the "trade deficit" it only calculates physical goods

America forgot to add the services trade surplus to the "trade deficit" it only calculates physical goods...

Singapoor

No one cares

Wannabe lee Kwan yu, this is bullish

Yeah no shit, this whole thing has been run by ChatGPT and polisci interns with (((connections))). Government officials are using LLMs to do their jobs. It's literally over.

Singapore is a major financial hub in Asia.

Wong is NOT wrong.
This is the reality. I know cultists will ignore his words, but it seems for me that Trump does his best to fuck up America's relations with everyone, friend or foe, demanding completely unrealistic concessions that only Israel can meet, since they're propped up by the US 100% anyway - whatever losses they take, American taxpayer will pay back in various funding.

they are the rich version of china, a first world country anyway you cut it

KEEP MY GOATS NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH

Well he is applying his "art of the deal", make unreasonable demand and then lower the demand when he talk to other leader which work great for a bussinessman like him, just not so much for a world leader.

All the big words used by "service" workers (SERVANTS) make the king's brainy hurty. Americans will stop being servants and reclaim the GLORY and MANLINESS they deserve, at the assembly line

We also got to look at his team full of retards, like Pete Navarro who was a NIMBY that wanted to stop all American development, people like him drove American companies out of America.

Based Wong dropping truthbombs

mean for this post

"Grok" didn't include that data because it wasn't important. The world hasn't caught up to the superior logic of Twitter Pajeet LLM.

Why would he do that? Just because he's a russian asset? Says who? KGB agent? What do they know? I will not take this blatant Krasnov slander, he wants what's best for this country

He didn't lower shit talking to Vietnam or EU - on the opposite, he demands things that have nothing to do with trade.
It would be understandable if he concentrated on select few, but the whole world? Expecting he'll be able to make a "deal" with hundreds of countries separately when each such diplomatic endeavor takes months?

no-growth finally achieved

They will kneel

"""services trade"""

It's just tax avoidance in Singapore Hong Kong the UK and the Netherlands

But he's getting all these phonecalls from all the world leaders. The kids weren't calling lately but now the phone is on fire. Let people enjoy things

I looked at the export chart of the USA and the top export are cars and insurance aka service. Literally something that no 3rd world country want.

this is by mentally retarded design. we're aiming to offshore moderate to high paying jobs (engineering, software, accounting, etc.) to street shitting pajeets, flips, south america, etc. so we can bring back niggerlicious low margin, low wage manufacturing work like making injection molded trinkets, hand sewing textiles, etc.

As a Dutch anon I noticed the biggest group of people who like to call Singapore by that name is Indonesians in my country lol.

Are you an indog, anon?

They then he call them babies and how they all begging him. See how manly your president is, he can literally crash the economy to appeal manly in front of his base.

Yup, the retard in charge is destroying every relationship we have along with out economy. Then one the stock market pops up slightly, or some country makes some agreement, he'll strut around calling himself brilliant, ignoring all the permanent damage done.

They want the quickest easiest solution which will prevent further chaos, once they realise trumps demands are unreasonable they won't accept and you'll see a transition worldwide away from the US completely

look at the f500 list and many of our top companies are complete scams

big jewish banks

med/pharma wholesalers

health and p&c insurers

big tech aka data mining

fannie & freddie (pseudo nationalized mortgages to prop up housing market scam)

Kek this is exactly the same sentiment that europeans have with USA now. What kind of friend does the shit USA has now done to europe, starting with Ukraine.

They're not our frens though. They're suck ups. They do what they can to not have the mightiest nation in the existence of this planet not crush them. They're the "funny" jew in school that tells jokes so the star quarterback doesn't give him swirillies, but talks shit behind his back.

MIGAtards are no different from puccians at this point. They just cannot comprehend the notion of allies, friends and partners

high school analogy

good to be reminded of where you are mentally.

I hope you will return the statue of liberty to us if that is the case.

that's a big brain analogy from a country that invented school shooters

Racist white boomers think it’s the 1600s. They’re about to get their everliving shit kicked in permanently just like in the 50s-70s. Brown people have been patient and tolerant, but not any fucking more. Whitey WILL be removed from the gene pool. Bookers WILL get the applesauce.

well he's being diplomatic
he can't just say that trump is lying to americans because not everyone would be ok with extorting "le poor thirdies" for even more wealth
so he has to cry about being the victim, textbook kikery

So I'm just like everyone else that plays politics.

Brown people have been patient and tolerant, but not any fucking more. Whitey WILL be removed from the gene pool. Bookers WILL get the applesauce.

posted from uttar pradesh on a android mobile phone from 2016

You 100% type like an ESL Russian you know.
You are confirmed retarded. You just eat lies like shit shovelled to you holy shit that's not why the US has debt. Nearly all US debt is domestic. Kill yourself miggertard.

They didn't forget. It was a blatant extortion scam from the start alongside huge opportunities to fill their own pockets through insider trading on info only they know and control. Other countries aren't stupid enough to bite, they have their own experts and numbers, likely noticing this months ago. They just didn't go public in the hopes that they could make a deal instead of outright confronting the US in an unprofitable public trade war. But now it's becoming clear that orange man doesn't want ANY type of realistic deal, this info is getting out more and more. I saw this on the Al Jazeera news outlet first ffs, the west's enemies saw fit to call it out the facts from the start.

This. It's also a huge rug pull on US investors and the Trump billionaires club win again. And if any tiny country bends over to the US he'll call that a huge win to justify even MORE tarriffs.

They're not our allies, and the last couple decades of foreign policy decisions have made that abundantly clear. The world bitches about US companies, bitches about US goods, bitches about US military interventions - what they want is not an alliance but a trade deal of convenience that in no way requires them to assist the US while continuing to prop up their economies so they don't have to give up any of the modern luxuries. To this day, much of Europe rejects US food because muh preservatives, rejects US military gear because muh Dassault/Rheinmetall stocks, and rejects every proxy war the US gets itself embroiled in because colonial policing is only okay when the Eurpoeans do it. The rest of our supposed 'allies' are even less cooperative than the EU.

The best thing for us to do now is to distance ourselves from the rest of the world and try to establish as much autarky for our internal system as possible before WW3 rolls in, and its coming soon. We have maybe a decade or two to fully reform from a globally-dependant system to one that runs entirely along internal lines because we may be fighting some or all of those 'allies' in just 20 years.

Dumb retard.
God I could really devour some food from a hawker center right about now

sorry but im not fighting for usa/israel in ww3. i will subvert the country. i will feed them insider knowledge. i will ensure we lose. im white, i will blend in with euros. you are a brown stinking retard who will be hanged to death after they rape, torture, and murder your entire family.

The US is rejecting the very system it created

This is on point.
Americans are complaining about the same thing they spent a century building and enjoying the benefits of it.
They have made the mental gymnastics that this is now bad for them.

much of Europe rejects US food

USA chicken need to be wash with chemical to be edible. It not fucking normal. Anyone with common sense would choose the same, especially when local products are cleaner.

and rejects every proxy war the US gets itself embroiled in

Bitch the USA was the only country in NATO that ever call for other countries in NATO for aid after 9/11. People rejected it because the excuse for war was flimsy and everyone nowaday accepted that the war was a mistake.

Be retarded

Your allies call you retarded and critique you constructively

WHY AREN'T MY ALLIES GIVING ME PLEASES AND THANK YOU'S AND TELLING ME I'M GREAT

I do find this level of delusion hillarious.

Okay Ranjesh. Take your meds.

This may be difficult for you to wrap your head around, Anon, but it actually hasn't benefitted the average American much except that we can buy cheap US goods. It mostly benefits people who own businesses or have positions in US Government institutions, who have basically run the table on our economy for the last 50 years. The average American has no savings, no steady employment and little future. Any shake-up at this point, anything that destroys the globalist system, is a move in a positive direction for us, especially if we can use it to get rid of the browns.

I was wondering how it was shaking out for Singapore, since I like their country. What that guy fails to understand is that if there is a SINGLE country on the planet without the tariff, it will immediately be semi-colonized by the Chinese as a shipping lane into the USA with lower tariffs.

That's not really something you can put in a speech to your voter base, though. The solution is for negotiators from Singapore to come to America and really try to understand the American position and what is trying to be achieved, and work with trade regulators to identify attempts to evade tariffs by China and other exporters.

Lee Kuan Yew would have understood this instantly and been able to work out a deal pretty much on day 1. He wouldn't have been whining about services trade when the deficit is only part of a complex mess of budget deficits, massive unemployment, supply chains through potential war zones WITH potential adversaries, and also yes trade deficits.

autarky

go back to Anon Babble.

Did Wong forgot about the unaccounted nvidia chips that were bought under Singapore?

it actually hasn't benefitted the average American much except that we can buy cheap US goods

That IS the benefit you absolute fucktard. The average citizen of the rest of the world is in a much worse of situation. The system WAS benefiting the US more than everyone else. They just played along because it was better than doing nothing at all.

Singapore and other developed countries knew about the services surplus and that the perceived good deficit was bullshit Day 1. They didn't talk about it because they were STILL WILLING to deal with Trump and try to minimize the damage. But now that NO ONE IS GETTING ANY DEALS, there is no disadvantage to calling out that this is blatant extortion so they're own citizens don't hang them in the public square.

This may be difficult for you to wrap your head around, Anon, but it actually hasn't benefitted the average American much

Anon, the American standard of living is sky high compared to 80% of the World. And the fucked up shit you face has almost nothing to do with the trade deficit (the issue at hand).

Because politics are not as simple as "fuck you you slighted me once time to collapse the economy" you stupid fuck.

They're not our allies

Yes they are you fucking retard. Having Aussies and Europe between us and the people that don't like us means we can pay them to get shot instead of us, and they'll thank us for the money while we make that much in a day. Having geopolitical and economic allies is critical to this country's functioning and you being a stupid, resentful nigger about it doesn't change that.

Going "we don't need friends, we're strong, we'll just make them do what we want" is why Russia is three years into a war they said they'd win in three days, and have advanced their frontline slower than a snail slithering from the border to Kiev. We are allies with Europe, Australia, Korea, and Japan, and no amount of cope from you about "hurr we don't need them" will change that you compromised, anti-American agent.

The average American has no savings, no steady employment and little future

That is entirely because of the US government, retard. Not because of other countries. Other countries are the only reason we aren't Zimbabwe-tier right now, and your gorilla nigger ook ook president just ruined that overnight without cinsideration for how this hurts you or me.

Spoken like a woman that has never done a hard day's worth of work outside. This transition period is gonna be tough, but you'll make it. It just requires you to fix your attitude.

HURRR YOU'RE POOR WE'RE RICH DURR

Okay? that's why you have a trade deficit. What's the problem here?

the thing is his supporters don't care
they think this world is gay and want america to isolate itself from the world
the funny thing is even if that was the plan the way they've done it is so stupid and haphazard that it won't work
plus america still wants to sell shit like food, vehicles, weapons and energy anyway so it can't isolate itself, after all, how the fuck are other countries going to buy shit if one of their biggest buyers doesn't buy anything anymore

I've given up on trying to find logic in this plan because there is none, anyone who's still onboard with this shit is retarded

Sure there's no immediate disadvantage but it ignores the actual problems to throw red meat to their voter base with the long term disadvantage of being on film talking shit that doesn't matter, and that WILL be brought up in negotiations. It's already happening with multiple EU negotiation teams that come over and find the US is there with all their past statements to throw in their face.

That said Wong's statements were tame, and do reflect the Singaporean position: they just don't show any understanding of the American position and that's not great for Singapore. They CANNOT come to a deal with America by playing the brow-beating/shaming game. Singapore is a SMALL and WEAK country, which is why Lee Kuan Yew led the way he did. Attempting to bully America might have worked during the Biden shadow admin, but it won't work with Trump because Singapore is not only a rounding error on the trade balance sheet, it's also a potential route for China and other nations to evade their own tariffs. Shit the Heard and Macdonald islands got the tariff too, does he think USA hates penguins? Wong needs to do less speeches and more research for negotiations.

I wish Singapore the best.

Less things are going to be shipped overseas. So there's going to be more things here. Bigger supply makes things cheaper.

Yes they are you fucking retard. Having Aussies and Europe between us and the people that don't like us means we can pay them to get shot instead of us, and they'll thank us for the money while we make that much in a day. Having geopolitical and economic allies is critical to this country's functioning and you being a stupid, resentful nigger about it doesn't change that.

Boomer spotted, the post WW2 order hasn't been working since Vietnam man, wake up. Allies didn't do SHIT for America during the GWOT, didn't do SHIT for America in Vietnam or Korea, haven't done SHIT for America AT ALL, except for well-connected elites in the MIC getting kickbacks.
I know this because I also attended war college and I know they're still teaching the same tired bullshit that hasn't ever worked and especially doesn't make sense 35 years after the end of the cold war. You know who the people who don't like us are? Euros and Aussies and everyone else on the planet currently ripping us off. You know who actually IS a good ally? FUCKING JAPAN THE ONE COUNTRY THAT EVER GOT NUKED IS FRIENDS WITH THE ONE COUNTRY THAT EVER NUKED ANOTHER.

It's disgusting, this willful ignorance and espousing of lies to line one's own wallet.

Fair, but honestly the guy is probably doing his best.

they just don't show any understanding of the American position

With Trump at the helm, literally no one does.

businesses do not operate this way
they will raise prices to be only slightly lower than the foreign competition and you will pay it because you have no choice

Post your hand, Ivan. I'm an industrial electrician. You work at a desk in Moscow trying to destroy my country.

no anon companies always compete to lower prices which is why other shock events like natural disasters have literal laws against price gouging. also tariffs will NOT cause a shock event, peter retardo told me so.

I wish you had entrepreneurship spirit, and didn't cuck yourself to a union.

It's very sad because nobody has been more on the record with his vision for America than Trump. He spent MONTHS saying he was going to do this and everyone just assumed he wouldn't, because that would be unthinkable. Then in the same breath they go on to state that Trump is out of control and insane and would do anything. Except the things he's on the record saying he would do. THAT is madness.

I suppose a primer for anyone wanting to understand the foundation of all this is picrel.

only low IQ minorities oppose unions, it's a proven fact.

Why do europeans keep posting about america? Could it be that the tariffs are working as intended and EuroPOORS are dying now?

Basically yes.

To be fair, Trump says A LOT of things. And I mean like, A LOT. Picking out one or two truths from dozens of lies is pretty damn hard.

Trade deficit

Zero tariff since god knows when

Still not enough

Miggers can only be satisfied when you beg them outside of their doors. Or just send a jew to negotiate with them, that would definitely open up their assholes, ready to be pegged.

Unions had their use a hundred years ago. Stop having your hand held.

He didn't write Art of the Deal.

why did orange nigger parade UAW workers around his rose bowl speech last week? one of them was even a guest speaker. for someone who purports to champion the working man, you sure are a fucking retard who can't toe the simplest of party lines.

Even Corrupt Union is better than No Union for your average worker.

Based union enjoyer.

Miss it when most of your fellow americans were this sane.

waiting for a response, faggot nigger.

Because I support one thing someone does, doesn't mean I do with everything. Freedom of Thought is a good thing Chang.

ripping US off

literally the richest country on earth

who (had) the strongest market growth

wealth in the US is hold by 1%

but it's the other countries that are ripping americans off, not the billionaires, of course not

You're literally throwing away a cultural and economic hegemony, throwing away the power your ancestor worked so hard to build around the world, and your place as the Leader of the Free World. And all of that because you listen to a senile orange schizo who don't even understand trade deficit and tariffs.
Your irrational greed will be your downfall.

Picking out one or two truths from dozens of lies is pretty damn hard.

I'm being 100% sincere here, I don't find this hard at all. It's super easy for me to listen to one of his speeches, even a rally speech, and understand what he means seriously, what he's joking about, and what is a pipe dream he's not really going to pursue.
Could you explain to me what you find difficult, and how you actually hear what Trump says? Do you read it, listen to it purely as audio, or watch videos? Do you watch him directly, or do you just view/listen to commentary about him with small clips interspersed? I really want to understand how everyone else is not understanding him, purely for the purpose of better understanding how foreign leaders keep misunderstanding him as well.

Read Zeihan.

Zeihan

A common critique is that Zeihan’s scenarios assume inevitability, disregarding the unpredictability of global events and technological innovation.This perspective bears similarities to Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian theories, which historically underestimated the role of technological and social innovation disrupting their predictions developed by the very societies they analyzed.

Some analysts argue that Zeihan does not fully account for factors like increased longevity and productivity, particularly in his assessments of economic and demographic sustainability. For instance, his projections regarding China’s decline have been criticized for not considering potential reforms in pension systems and government fiscal policies.

Additionally, Zeihan’s analysis has been described as heavily U.S.-centric, often emphasizing American advantages while downplaying the strengths of other nations.

Oh we might lose our 1st place? Better throw a tantrum and spite every country in the world at the same time, surely this will make all better.
Stop listening to any alarmist nigger who wrote a book and take smart steps to ensure your future as a leader, don't burn everything to the ground like a retarded ape.

read zeihan

i have no words to describe how retarded you are. when has peter fucking grifter zeihan ever been right about anything ever

Well he predicted Trump's foreign policy pretty much to a t back in 2015, before he announced running.

outsourcing your thinking to chatgpt because you can't be assed to type up your own ignorance

My brother you are lost. I hope you find your way back.

No, not chatGPT.
youtube.com/watch?v=XupM5_zHDbM&feature=youtu.be

unionigger poorfags post here

yikes, i thought we all worked in the stock market

it may very well now be bad for them after they were reaping profits from it for decades, but they're blaming others for it and that's the faggot move

Bring friends with Trump's US is like being allied with a schizophrenic pitbull, you never know when they might just sperg out and maul you for no reason.

a guy running a youtube channel and selling online economics courses out of Belgium thinks a guy with multiple published books and regularly gives talks to government agencies and economics groups is wrong

Okay. I would encourage you to read Zeihan's book anyway just so you can understand his argument rather than just regurgitate youtube commentary on Zeihan's youtube channel which I'll admit isn't very good analysis nor content-wise.
Zeihan is like Burry: right about the facts and analysis, wrong about the timeline.

Just to follow up, I started watching the video and it's painful to see not only how he not only misunderstand's Zeihan's point, but also how to evaluate arguments (in a very european way I might add)

11:12

here are three big problems with Zeihan's argument [about chinese vulnerability to piracy and shipping uncertainty if the US Navy stops guaranteeing freedom of navigation and international oceanic trade)

1. No other expert seems concerned about this

I can stop right there. His number one counter-argument is simultaneously an appeal to authority AND a fallacious assertion that absence of evidence is evidence of absence
But I go on, and he misinterprets surface level facts about the Chinese navy and its capabilities based on raw ship numbers, and then goes on to misunderstand food security in general AND in particular with respect to China
Oh and also he posted a video supportive of Trump's tariffs stating that they make sense: youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA
Anon please for your own financial health do not listen to what this guy says.

there is nothing wrong with the US running a deficit

noo, our countrys cant run a deficit, thats racist!

interesting

islandchink niggers get most of their income from financial crimes and acting as a front for chink imports

are you retarded?
is this what your english comprehension amounts to?