Imagine a young child asking you to play with you. They say there is an invisible unicorn in their room. One response is to play together – perhaps you might suggest that you have an invisible penguin and ask if it can play with a unicorn.
The US government recently encountered a “bilateral trade obstacle.” (What is the trade deficit with Starbucks?) However, based on a recent article in the Financial Times, Europeans are willing to play together:
Brussels wants to increase US goods purchases by 50 billion euros to address the “problems” of trade relations, with the EU’s top negotiator adding that the bloc is making “specific advances” to attack the trade. . . .
Sifchovich said that the important debate he had in the US was that President Jamieson Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick considered exporting American services to the EU, resulting in an excess trade deficit with Europe of around 500 billion euros.
It could quickly close with a deal to buy more US gas and produce, he said.
“We believe that if what we see as a deficit issue is 50 billion euros, we can really do it.
Of course, the European purchase of $50 billion worth of soy and natural gas does little to reduce the overall US trade deficit, but the US bilateral trade deficit reduces the European trade deficit, making goods alternative, exchangeable or easy.
Europe previously thought it had bought soybeans from Brazil and natural gas from Qatar. It also assumes that East Asian countries have purchased soybeans and natural gas from the United States. The commodity trade could be rerouted as Europe now purchases soybeans and natural gas from the US, and Brazilian soybeans and Qatar gas were rerouted to East Asia. The change in wowd changes the cost of transportation slightly higher and making the world a little poorer.
In American politics’ shit theatres, this may be considered a “big victory.” After all, we now live in an imaginary world of nothing. A world where the administration saved 258,000,000 American lives. That’s three-quarters of the US population.
If Europeans want to play in this imaginary world, their best strategy is to humor the regime by pretending that bilateral bilateral trade obstacles are real.
I searched for a 1932 Betty Boop comic titled “Crazy Town” and the internet copy is of very poor quality. I saw in the theatres back in your time and for my money they are the best cartans ever. (Especially for surreal precoded.) Bese Films is still under copyright and is presumed to be a Scholause that is likely to find “innovation.” (Yes, I’m sarcasm.)
This is the unicorn:
