Restoring American growth

[quintessentone]

I don't like the anti-outsourcing and anti-free trade crusade. It's my preferred neoliberal market views that gave the world tiers of quality in manufacturing. Gave the world call centers in Mumbai and crap built in Vietnam.

It's an established global interconnected ecosystem. It literally functions like a natural habitat. Niches filled, everything seeking a Nash style equilibrium. There's hierarchy, a food chain, and so interconnected and vast it's almost beyond point of upending, but not totally. 

For a major player to suddenly embrace protectionism and isolation where globalization once stood is like dropping an ultra invasive species into the habitat.

Now the ecosystem has to adjust. And it will, just like nature does. Weakest species to this change, like small domestic fish that rely on the much cheaper imported Indonesian coral for their castles will flounder.  (Fish pun!) 

Whales like Walmart will do better, they have food chain hierarchy and can adapt much easier. They are more likely to absorb it themselves, find alternatives within the changed ecosystem and create a new niches centered on appeasing the ultra invasive species. 

Now all the new fish that arrise will do so in a habitat that is harder to thrive in. 

* Unless the all-of-a-sudden protectionist Alpha fish decides to make it easier for them. And give them more ways to thrive. Because even the domestic fish do better with cheaper outsourced coral from Indonesia for their custom castle company.

Walmart is set to cut 1,500 corporate jobs, that can't be good for the economic food chain.

[MichSwampbuck]

You use up other countries reserves before using your own so you have enough resources at home to fight and win a big war if needed. No need to take over other countries, just get our corporations in there to exploit their resources while we offer some arms and payola to the people "in charge".

Keep them busy with fighting somebody like a neighboring country or some rebel group or political faction, while you drain their resources down to nothing. Once they have little left to offer with natural resources, it's on to the sex trade and black market goods in a ruin down economy for our tourists to spend our inflated currency in and have an affordable vacation.

[fiveandtwo]

There’s a lot of manufacturing plants and factories that are sitting dormant.  Maybe start with renovating the ones that are still viable.