I don't think I have blogged this previously, but I have read about this guy for a while.

As the anti war loons have ramped up their accusations of American brutality, one name emerged as the poster child of the accusations, Jesse Adam MacBeth.
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If a depreciating currency is good for exports, Zimbabwe should be selling things out the wazoo, but you don't see that happening either.

Well, I'm no expert, but I was in Zimbabwe two years ago (I'm embarrassed to say) and from the looks of it they probably do have a trade surplus now (if you don't count foreign aid), because no one is importing any goods there -- who wants to sell their goods for Zim dollars? At a market where years before I had to pay good money for local products, now the merchants politely begged me to trade them my shoes, my socks, anything but their worthless money, because they could not at any price find imported products to buy.

Anyway, wouldn't it be nice if we could have a trade surplus by making better products and having a more responsible savings rate rather than hoping to impoverish ourselves to the point that we can't afford the imports anymore?

Maybe US exporters will trickle some money down my way, but frankly that doesn't sound like a good trade for having most of my assets seriously devalued.

Yes--the only thing we are going to get out of a weak US dollar vis a vis the Canadian dollar is inflation, given the fact that they are our largest source of imported energy.

If the dollar's slide is good for exports, then we should be exporting like gangbusters to Europe. But that's not happening.

DC Loser is right on--we havent had a trade surplus with the UK since Clinton was president. Our trade deficit with the EU ran $116 billion last year. We are also at a $88 million trade deficit with the Japs.

The only bright spot has been Iceland where we have lodged surpluses for the past four years.

/brBack in April I posted an essay by Sgt Eddie Jeffers entitled Hope Rides Alone.EXCERPT: America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing...