Comment by epolanski

Will never understand why the US is so fixated with exports and trade balance.

All major export economies (Italy, Germany, Japan, China) have clearly shown in the last decades that being an export economy is a major weakness.

Also, the elephant in the room: the real exports of US, which are services, are not included in the very same trade balance. How much money flows to US through services? From google and meta ads to Netflix subscriptions to financial services and payments, from Hollywood movies to Amazon's/Cloudflare's cloud services, etc, etc?