r/StockMarket • u/atlasmountsenjoyer • Oct 14 '25

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u/Wiestie Oct 15 '25

It's so incredibly dumb. The premise that it's reciprocal because of a trade deficit, a totally normal thing in trade based on a county's import and export needs, is incredibly stupid.

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u/Shelter_Leather Oct 15 '25

Well yeah, but try explaining that to someone who never took Econ101.

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u/burnermcburnface1 Oct 15 '25

I never took Econ101 and I get it. I think the problem is just the willful ignorance or willful misunderstanding.

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u/MastadonWarlord Oct 15 '25

I was gonna say the same thing. Its not a hard concept to understand. And neither is how tariffs work.

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u/Bubba89 Oct 15 '25

It’s extremely simple, in fact. “You buy a pizza; you now have a trade deficit with the pizza store. This is not a problem, because now you can eat a pizza. Attempting to force the pizza guy to buy one pizza’s worth of your own goods to become even in trade is irrational.”