Markets Can’t Ignore Exploding Trade Deficits Forever – Ep 745
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
Peter Schiff
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
* US dollar would tank if traders understood implications of economic data.
* Trade deficit continues to break records month after month.
* Strong economies have trade surpluses; we have a bubble economy.
* We’re only consuming and importing because we’re printing a currency the world still values.
* Massive trade deficits aren’t a problem until they’re a crisis.
* Government pretends rights are privileges so it can tax them.
* Moral hazard and rampant fraud will ramp up childcare costs under new Biden plan.
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| 0:29.3 | All of the major stock market indexes finish the day with strong gains. |
| 0:34.4 | Although this time it was the NASDAQ that made a new all-time record high, of course stock |
| 0:39.7 | traders completely oblivious to the bad news, or maybe even if they're not oblivious |
| 0:45.3 | to it, they don't care about it. |
| 0:47.7 | At least the foreign exchange markets cared a little bit. |
| 0:50.7 | The US dollar index, I think, finished at about a six-week low today, closed around 93, |
| 0:56.7 | spot, 3-7. |
| 0:58.2 | Although if foreign currency traders were really paying attention to the economic news or understood |
| 1:04.5 | the implications, the US dollar would be a lot lower. |
| 1:07.9 | In fact, the US dollar would have gotten killed yesterday if traders understood the implications |
| 1:15.2 | of the data. |
| 1:16.2 | In fact, if they acted the way traders used to act to the very data points back in the 1980s |
| 1:24.5 | or even in the first half of the 1990s when economic fundamentals played a much bigger |
| 1:32.0 | role. |
| 1:33.0 | Because once Alan Greenspan really began to actively involve himself in the markets. |
| 1:40.7 | Of course, that started in the late 1980s after the 87 stock market crash, but it really |
| 1:47.1 | kicked in during the bubble days of the irrational exuberance of the latter part of the 1990s. |
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