[theold]

“The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. 

It consumes more than it produces. 

It has outsourced its manufacturing and borrowed money in order to have a higher standard of living than it's entitled to based on its productivity.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...ar-spirals

[sgbuffett]

The US can do it because of reserve currency.
Its a privileged postion.

Trump is a fool to whine about America 's privileged position that allows it to live way beyond a country with nomral status.

Trump wants to bring back factory and make americans factory workers.

All he needs to do is guve up the US dollar status are reserve curency and over night US dollar will go downa nd factories will shift back to america.