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The cure for the trade deficit is to tax consumption instead of saving and investment, and to stop borrowing to fund consumption.

Drawn from what John H. Cochrane said

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fiscal policy The spending-and-taxing half of macro, as against the central-bank half: multipliers, stabilisers, stimulus.

tariffs Taxes on imports: whether they close a trade deficit, what they do to prices, and what they are really for.

Do tariffs do what they are imposed to do?under our view: A trade deficit is a capital surplus, so the deficit to fix is the budget's

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What John H. Cochrane actually said

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  1. John H. Cochrane

    Economist at the Hoover Institution

    Cure the disease, not the symptoms. Reform taxes to tax consumption, not saving and investment. Stop funneling borrowed money to consumption.

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