No. of Recommendations: 6
“and if we stopped trading with every country that we have a deficit with — which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do — we would make at least $1.5 trillion a year. we do that because it’s almost like a reflex.”
How does that work:
Why Stopping Trade Doesn’t Make Money
Stopping trade does not put cash into the U.S. treasury.
Halting imports creates immediate shortages of vital everyday goods.
Grocery stores, hospitals, and factories would run out of supplies.
Prices would skyrocket due to extreme product shortages.
📉 The Economic Reality
Shutting down global trade would crash the U.S. economy.
Global supply chains take decades to build and cannot stop easily.
Trading partners buy U.S. exports, which supports domestic jobs.
Ending trade means other countries stop buying American goods too.
