RTCastillo wrote:
Yes, still apolitical and from someone who used economics for work in corporate financial planning.
We are now suffering from the unintended consequence of our drive for open trade by pressuring countries to lower their tariffs for our high-value products, cars, being an export dynamo.
Simple really. We can import their cheap steel and aluminum. Make them into high value-added cars and export to these countries under low tariff.
What happened is that it killed our steel and aluminum industries while these countries were able to make their own cars while US car manufacturers found cheap trainable workers in low wage countries and do the cars domestically and zero tariff.
The U.S. and world economies are so interconnected and convoluted I think is near impossible for the average individual (myself included) to figure out what will be in the best interest of the U.S long term.