In his speech on foreign policy this week, Trump explained that America is being bested by countries like China, Japan and Mexico because their leaders are "smarter, more cunning, and sharper than our leaders."
"They're killing us," he often says.
"The U.S. has come out of the 2008 crisis better than all the others," says Ruchir Sharma, head of global macro investing at Morgan Stanley.
"Americans have reduced their debt burden more than the Europeans, while China's debt has skyrocketed to extremely dangerous levels. If you look outside of China, U.S. growth is actually faster even than the emerging markets.
"Since the 2008 crisis, U.S. equity markets have outperformed all others — in fact nine out of the 10 most valuable companies in the world are now American. The dollar is the currency of choice. Global growth is not what it used to be, but in a bad neighborhood, the U.S. has the best house by far."
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Thank you, Mr. President.
Except that Trump was talking about our unfair Trade agreements.
He is right.
Look at these numbers, we are in the hole with all of them on our Foreign trade and it is both parties who are doing it.
Look at our exports compared to other countries imports to us.
We are at minus -426,864.1
Foreign Trade - U.S. Trade with World, Seasonally Adjusted