Comments on: The Trump Card: Trade Aggression https://barelyablog.com/the-trump-card-trade-aggression/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/the-trump-card-trade-aggression/comment-page-1/#comment-17379 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:00:55 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=33166#comment-17379 Ayn Rand lived in and I grew up in the New York City of the 1950’s and 1960’s and we were both impressed with its energy and vitality. Fortunately, neither of us endorsed the idiotic socialistic attitudes prevalent there. I have to say that perhaps I don’t “get it” about Chinese currency manipulation:

Mr. Wong sells me a shirt for a picture of Abe Lincoln with the number 5 on it when, in reality, I should give him a picture of Alexander Hamilton with the number 10 on it. How does that make me any better? And what can Mr. Wong do with these green pieces of paper anyway – well, maybe he can buy oil from Sheik Yamani but then Sheik Yamani has to buy F-15’s from Lockheed Martin. In any case, how would my paying more “dollars” to Mr. Wong make me better off?

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