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- From: s462075d@edinboro.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Trade Deficit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.091559.9490@edinboro.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 14:15:58 GMT
- References: <925y02K.2dhe01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Dec4.140822.11757@linus.mitre.org>
- <1992Dec4.155214.26523@midway.uchicago.edu> <ccD903kDc0TM00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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- In article <ccD903kDc0TM00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, fierro@uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec4.155214.26523@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec4.140822.11757@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
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- >>> An other false claim, most often made by Japanese trade
- >>>representatives, states that it is naturally expected that Japan has a
- >>>trade surplus with America. This is because if every Japanese bought $100
- >>>of goods from America, and every American bought $100 worth of goods from
- >>>Japan, an imbalance would occur in Japan's favor as there are twice as
- >>>many Americans as Japanese in the world.
-
- It also means they are that much more productive than us.
-
-
- >>>This is a mathematical fallacy. To see more clearly this picture,
- >>>imagine a world with 2 countries, one with 100 citizens, and an other with
- >>>1 citizen, you. Each person has $200 to their name. Every year you buy
- >>>$100 of goods from the other country, and each of their citizens buy $100
- >>>of goods from your country. If you work out this example, you will see
- >>>that in a little over 2 years, you will have accumulated all of the money
- >>>in the world and the other country will be penniless. This is the current
- >>>state of affairs between Japan and its trading partners. Although things
- >>>are actually occurring more slowly, this is the trend.
-
- The only problem with this translating to the real world is that "new" money
- is always being created in the form of new products, services, etc.
-
-
- > My question then is where the hell are all these extra dollars going
- > if the Japanese only accept Yens for their goods? Do world banks just
- > sit on them?
- >
- > Doug
- > --
-
- Well, Doug, they go into:
-
- The purchase of Rockefeller Center,
- The purchase of MGM, Columbia Pictures, etc,
- The purchase of California banks,
- The purchase of California & Hawiian real estate,
- Other purchases of real (i.e.: land) American property.
-
- And this only makes the total account deficit worse over time!
-
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