More than 50 countries have reached out to the President to begin tariff negotiations

[rickymouse]

Well, maybe the addition of "trade agreements over the last 50 or more years ago" would help 
The USA has been taking a big hit on trade since we allowed manufacturing to leave our shores.
Plenty of blame to go around.

I was around when the country started exporting jobs.  I remember the people of the time complaining that it will ruin our country.  Sure they created a consumer based economy to make things look good, but every empire that did that in the past fell badly after a while.  It happened to the Roman empire, it happened to the English empire, when a society gets too dependent on others to supply their needs, sooner or later they flop.

If you want to create money out of nothing, start a stock market.  It creates money that is not real.  It is based on belief, people will spend more if they believe they are making money and are wealthy...yet it can all go away in a short time.  Never put more money than you can afford to lose into stocks is what the brokers used to have to tell people back in the eighties.

The reality we live in is far from real.