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[Thomaspalley.com] Thomas Palley » Blog Archive » Debunking the Saving Shortage ...: Reducing the trade deficit requires increasing exports and decreasing imports. That requires inducing foreigners to buy more U.S. made goods, and inducing Americans to “switch” their spending from imports to domestic made goods.

 [Coyoteblog.com] Coyote Blog: A Trade Deficit is Not a Debt (Nor is it Bad): If the Chinese had a predilection for debt securities, more so than say an American holder of dollars, one might argue that this predilection drives down interest rates a bit and therefore might increase total debt, but this is a fairly tenuous chain of causation and not, I think, what seems to be bothering folks who panic over the trade deficit. In fact, one can argue that the causation runs more strongly the other direction, that the large US budget deficit keeps the dollar higher than it might otherwise be, increasing the trade deficit.

[Metrics2.com] Metrics 2.0: US Trade Deficit Narrows by Most in 5 Years; Deficit ...: The deficit with China rose to a new record of $23 billion in September, pushed higher by a import of Chinese-made televisions, cell phones and toys. So far this year, the deficit with China is running at an annual rate of $221.7 billion, on track to surpass last year's $202 billion deficit, 

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