tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post5738449753677693987..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Stockman: ‘Crybaby’ Steel Lobby Found Their ‘Biggest Sucker’ Yet in Trump Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-48700443478627959502018-03-09T07:56:28.240-05:002018-03-09T07:56:28.240-05:00Stockman is so smart usually. But how can he deplo...Stockman is so smart usually. But how can he deplore the "trade deficit" and a few sentences later mock the old-fashioned, backward, mercantilist way of thinking---?<br />I find gripes about "unfair dumping" and "trade imbalances" analogous to the following: I shop at my local grocer for years, buying groceries, spending tens of thousands of dollars each year. He is Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236071066075535008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-9386408649759031652018-03-08T20:28:32.716-05:002018-03-08T20:28:32.716-05:00Also today, Stockman also had quite interesting th...Also today, Stockman also had quite interesting things to say about Gary Cohn's departure. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5603671185735581812018-03-08T19:44:40.921-05:002018-03-08T19:44:40.921-05:00The city block on which I live has always run an e...The city block on which I live has always run an enormous trade deficit with the city block downtown where the Mall is located. We "import" for more goods into our houses than we "export" to the downtown Mall. As Rothbard says, so what? In reality, a national trade deficit is nothing more than an embarrassment to the government people as it could tend to reduce their power, Alan Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09144313758560375165noreply@blogger.com