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Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]

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162 points TaurenHunter | 1 comments | 04 Apr 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.457s | source
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xuki ◴[04 Apr 25 09:52 UTC] No.43580070[source]▶
Can someone explain to me how the US can reshore manufacturing without dramatically lower their standard of living? Maybe they can subsidize some essential industries but I can’t see a path to do it for everything.
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1. disambiguation ◴[04 Apr 25 22:02 UTC] No.43588122[source]▶
In the future, rich Chinese programmers will discuss the economics of their trade deficit with poor American factory workers :^)