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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by narrator on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:55PM (#14056723)
It could have been a lot worse. How big is our trade deficit annually? What if we couldn't run a trade deficit?
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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by nstj on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:10PM (#14056793)
China would have been thrown into chaos in that case.
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Re:U.S. Launches over 50 Missiles at Syrian Military Base by narrator on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:22PM (#14056848)
...because they wouldn't have had dollars to buy oil. What if they didn't need dollars and could use local currency?
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