Click HERE to see this thread with all of the graphics, features, and links.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-trade-policies-keep-backfiring/

Agree, Disagree?

And I advise you read at least part of the actual article if you're going to comment on it.

I think the biggest thing here is that America's trade deficit has continued expanding despite Trump isolating America in the hope to stop that.

The TPP was a giant piece of shit. It was very sneaky legislation that was thankfully smacked down.


Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and economist wrote:



https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/opinion/krugman-no-big-deal.html


Bernie Sanders website says:



http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-trade/#the-trans-pacific-partnership


Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) cautioned of the TPP:



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html?utm_term=.0e8511e624ff



But specifically from the article, quite a few investigations are underway to fix some of these sneaky and shitty trade deficits:





So all we can do is hope that Trump delivers at least SOMETHING good from his administration other than smacking down the TPP (which was clearly not good for America).