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IL09: The Money Revolution...Rethinking Economic Growth ft. Richard Duncan

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The US Trade Deficit - The Age of Globalization

By 2006, the US trade deficit had blown out to $800 billion that year. That was 6% of US GDP. The Fed financed much of that with new paper money creation through three rounds of quantitative easing. And we still didn't have high rates of inflation. Globalization was extremely disinflationary. So the third thing that I've already touched on a bit is that with globalization and extremely low inflation, the US government was able to borrow more than it had done in the past without pushing up interest rates.

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